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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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Caida de un picador de su caballo debajo del toro (A Picador is Unhorsed and Falls under the Bull)
El celebre Fernando del Toro, barilarguero, obligando a la fiera con su garrocha (The celebrated Picador, Fernando del Toro, Draws the Fierce Beast on with His Pique)
Un caballero espanol mata un toro despues de haber perdido el caballo (A Spanish Knight Kills the Bull after Having Lost His Horse)
Banderillas de fuego (Banderillas with Firecrackers)
El famoso Martincho poniendo banderillas al quiebro (The Famous Martincho Places the Banderillas Playing the Bull with the Movement of His Body)
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)
Capean otro encerrado (They Play Another with the Cape in an Enclosure)
La desgraciada muerte de Pepe Illo en la plaza de Madrid (The Unlucky Death of Pepe Illo in the Ring at Madrid)
Otro modo de cazar a pie (Another Way of Hunting on Foot)
Mariano Ceballos, alias el Indio, mata el toro desde su caballo (Mariano Ceballos, Alias the Indian, Kills the Bull from His Horse)
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)
Origen de los arpones o banderillas (Origin of the Harpoons or Banderillas)