Bullfighter
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A bullfighter or matador is a performer in the activity of bullfighting. Torero or toureiro, both from Latin taurarius, are the Spanish and Portuguese words for bullfighter, and describe all the perfo
Early 20th-century photograph of a matador, showing traditional outfit in 1935.
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A picador on horseback lancing the bull, 2010.
Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza
Spanish-style bullfighting
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Spanish-style bullfighting is a type of bullfighting that is practiced in several Spanish-speaking countries: Spain, Mexico, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, as well as in parts of southern France and Portug
Bullfighter
…and to provide clues to the matador on which side the bull is favoring. They perform in the tercio de varas which is the first of the three stages in a Spanish bullfight. The shape of the lance or pica is regulated by Spanish law to prevent serious injury to the bull, which was viewed as unfair cheating in the past. The…
A Spanish-style bullfight in the Plaza de toros de La Malagueta in Málaga, Spain, 2018
El Cid Campeador lanceando otro toro by Francisco Goya, 1816
Enrique Simonet's La suerte de varas (1899) depicts Spanish-style bullfighting in a bullring in Madrid, Spain. The painting illustrates the first stage of this type of bullfighting.
The capote (cloak) waved in front of the bull, 2005