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Spanish painter and printmaker who bridged the Old Masters and the modern age, documenting war, superstition, and human cruelty with unsparing psychological force.
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El mismo Ceballos montado sobre otro toro quiebra rejones en la plaza de Madrid (The Same Ceballos Mounted on Another Bull Breaks Short Spears in the Ring at Madrid)
La desgraciada muerte de Pepe Illo en la plaza de Madrid (The Unlucky Death of Pepe Illo in the Ring at Madrid)
Otra locura suya en la misma plaza (Another Madness of His in the Same Ring)
Cogida de un moro estando en la plaza (A Moor Caught by the Bull in the Ring)
El famoso Martincho poniendo banderillas al quiebro (The Famous Martincho Places the Banderillas Playing the Bull with the Movement of His Body)
Desgracias acaecidas en el tendido de la plaza de Madrid, y muerte del alcalde de Tor rejon (Dreadful events in the Front Rows of the Ring at Madrid and Death of the Mayor of Torrejon)
Caida de un picador de su caballo debajo del toro (A Picador is Unhorsed and Falls under the Bull)
Los Moros hacen otro capeo en plaza con su albornoz (The Moors Make a Different Play in the Ring Calling the Bull with Their Burnous)
Un caballero espanol mata un toro despues de haber perdido el caballo (A Spanish Knight Kills the Bull after Having Lost His Horse)
El esforzado Rendon picando un toro, de cuya suerte murio en plaza de Madrid (The Forceful Rendon Stabs a Bull with the Pique, from Which Pass He Died in the Ring at Madrid)
Pedro Romero matando a toro parado (Pedro Romero Killing the Halted Bull)
El diestrisimo estudiante de Falces, embozadoburla al toro con sus quiebros (The Very Skillful Student of Falces, Wrapped in His Cape, Tricks the Bull with the Play of His Body)