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
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
Picador
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A picador is one of the pair of horse-mounted bullfighters in a Spanish-style bullfight that jab the bull with a lance. They perform in the tercio de varas, which is the first of the three stages in a
Spanish-style bullfighting
…light"); and created the cape maneuvers (muleta), typical in this style of bullfighting since the 19th century. Each matador has six assistants: two picadores ("lancers") mounted on horseback, three banderilleros ("flagmen"), and a mozo de espada ("lad of the swords"). Collectively they compose a cuadrilla…
Picador in Mexico corralling with a bull, 2010.
A pair of picadors en la Santa María de Bogotá, 2018.
Picador in action, 2005.