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Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, designer

Furnishing textile length, ca. 1920

Description

Maker

  • Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, 1871-1949, Spanish, designer

Title

Furnishing textile length

Year

ca. 1920

Medium

Cotton plain weave, resist printed

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • cotton

Techniques

  • plain weave,
  • resist printing

Dimensions

Length: 264.2 cm (104 inches)

Type

  • Textiles

Credit

Gift of Barbara Deering Danielson

Object Number

82.308.48G

Projects & Publications

Publications

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

“Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass"

June 10, 2014 - March 8, 2015

This fabric’s large-scale floral and foliate pattern refers to the lush colors and textures of 17th-century Italian or Ottoman velvet. Spanish-born Venice-based artist Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo stencil-printed and hand-painted pigment that was impregnated with bronze powder onto a red cotton ground. He then discharge-dyed the fabric, carefully removing color from select areas.

The art and ornament of the Italian Renaissance, Persia, Byzantium, and classical Greece inspired Fortuny to experiment with new printing, draping, and pleating processes. Beginning in 1909, he accumulated 18 patents for printing silk and cotton fabrics with many layers of color.

A Decade of Collecting (Painting and Sculpture; Prints, Drawings, and Photographs)

June 26 - September 20, 1987

A Decade of Collecting (Costume and Textiles)

July 17 - September 6, 1987

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