Cleveland Museum of Art
Bullfights: Charles V spearing a bull
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- 1816, printed 1876
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 105420
From LinkedCulture
Even an emperor had to prove himself in the ring. This engraving by Francisco de Goya, from his 1816 series La Tauromaquia, captures the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V on horseback, leaning forward with a lance as a bull charges beneath his horse's belly. The armored rider, plumed helmet and all, is rendered in dramatic raking light against deep shadow. Goya used the series to show bullfighting as living Spanish history, with royalty and commoners judged equally by the crowd.
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A rider on horseback chasing a bull.
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- Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
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