The museum-house of Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo and his wife Henriette Nigrin, his muse and a talented entrepreneur responsible for what we know as the ‘Fortunyan’ world of amazing printed fabrics, plissé silk clothing, and lighter-than-air shawls worn like Indian saris by the sexiest femmes fatales in the Belle Époque. Paintings, clothes, fabrics, colours, dyes, photographs, art collections, documents, patents – all lives together at Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei, open year-round.
