Word: tauromaquia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tauromaquia continues the theme of war and the dark figure of the bull dominates these drawings. In two of the works Goya describes how man has fought this dark creature from time immemorial. In another, he shows that when the bull gets loose he massacres people in the stands. This oldest of Spanish sports, while artistically compelling, was more than a technical exercise for Goya; it contained rampant symbolism...
...Toros," and he claimed to have faced the bulls himself in his youth. At 69, after a lifetime of watching the recurring drama of blood, grace and courage, Goya set out to do a pictorial history of the bullfight. The result was a magnificent series of etchings called La Tauromaquia...
...first commercial edition of the 33 etchings of the Tauromaquia (Goya himself printed only a few copies in 1815) did not come out until 1855. A second edition was printed in 1876. Limited to 400 copies, it sold like wildfire, but a repeat printing was impossible because the plates were lost. They were found again in 1915, and a third and a fourth edition were printed. Finally, the plates disappeared once more during the Spanish Civil War, and it was feared that they had been destroyed in the fighting. In the last few years, the price...
...cleaning out the club's storerooms, found the plates again, hidden among bags of coal, pieces of broken furniture and ruined statuary in the basement. Last week the plates were cleaned and readied once more for the presses. The Circulo will put out a fifth edition of the Tauromaquia, limited to 500 copies, to sell...