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‘People in front of the arcades of the Alhambra’
The Musée d’Orsay hosts an exhibition of drawings that the Catalan artist made during stays in Andalusia and Morocco, between 1870 and 1872
He died at the age of 36, but achieved success. Born in Reus, Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838-1874) was one of the most famous painters of the 19th century, as well as a draughtsman and engraver. He was a prolific cartoonist and displayed “great creative originality and independence. Although he followed the tradition: he copied the great masters like Veláz
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