Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo was a multidisciplinary artist: painter, engraver, photographer, stage designer, electrical lighting technician, and inventor and designer of legendary fabrics and garments that revolutionised the fashion world. He was heavily influenced by the Orient, spanning North Africa to the Far East. By and large, this interest, which profoundly defined his work, came from his father, the famous Orientalist painter Mariano Fortuny y Marsal.
Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, Orientalism, multidisciplinary artist.