“Work is something active. Inactive work does not exist. A part of visible work may depend on two parts of intellectual effort, just as two parts of visible work may depend on one part of intellectual effort…Visible work can be immediately recognised by the proportion of intellectual effort on which it relies. No artifice in the world can hide the source of a work. Every work is a son that always recognises its father.”
Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo was born in Granada in 1871 into an artistic family. His father, a renowned painter with an international reputation, had a deep love for history and built an impressive collection of objects and fabrics...
