Cleveland Museum of Art
Bullfights: Dreadful Events in the Front Rows of the Ring at Madrid and Death of the Mayor of Torrejon
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- 1816, printed 1876
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 105446
From LinkedCulture
This print captures the moment a bullfight turned fatal, and Goya makes you feel the horror through emptiness. In plate 21 of his Tauromaquia series, made in 1816 and printed in 1876, a massive dark bull looms over a tangle of fallen bodies and scattered hats crammed into one corner, while most of the page is left eerily bare. That unsettling open space is the point. Goya embedded two real disasters, including the death of the mayor of Torrejon, inside what was supposed to be a tribute to bullfighting.
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- Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
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