Palazzo Fortuny, in Campo San Beneto, San Marco. It focuses on Mariano Fortuny’s art, textiles, photography, stage design, and painting, and it’s run by Venice’s civic museum foundation.
 
Palazzo Fortuny, originally Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei, dates to the 15th century as a prime example of Venetian Gothic architecture built by the noble Pesaro family. It passed through various owners before Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo bought it in the late 19th century, transforming it into his home and studio by 1907.
 
Born in 1871 in Granada to artist parents, Fortuny moved to Venice as a youth after his father’s early death. With his wife Henriette Negrin, he turned the palazzo into an atelier for textiles like the iconic pleated Delphos gown, lighting innovations, photography, painting, and stage design, including his vast Winter Garden mural.
 
Interesting facts....
The palazzo served as a clandestine workshop where Fortuny and Henriette Negrin experimented with secret textile printing techniques, including the elusive process for their shimmering, pleated Delphos gowns—worn by icons like Eleonora Duse and praised by Marcel Proust—whose exact pleating method remains a guarded family mystery.