Fortuny, retrato de una pasión

Mariano Fortuny i Marsal was Spain's most internationally recognised artist in the 19th century. His realist painting paved the way for the advancing modernity of the Impressionists. He died unexpectedly in Rome at the young age of 36, drowned in his own blood. An autopsy was ordered to clarify the cause of his death, a fact that is little-known, although the results of that autopsy provided more questions than answers. His mysterious death had a great impact and provoked a huge number of conjectures that tainted his family and in a circle of friends with suspicion.