Within Piazza San Marco, or St. Mark’s Square, is the Fortuny Museum, known as Museo Fortuny in Italian. The museum was once owned by a noble Venetian family, the Pesaro’s. The Pesaro family were well-respected, 17th Century ambassadors, admirals and Doges. By the turn of the Century, Canadian-born Mariano Fortuny turned the grand Gothic structure, which was once, but of course, a palace into his own art studio and his residence. Fortuny housed his diverse collections here and his widow donated the collections to the City of Venice in the 1950s.
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