In the Ring: Goya’s La Tauromaquia
Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University Campus 1401 S University Parks Dr, Waco, TX 76706, USAFrancisco Goya’s La Tauromaquia is a cloaked, slyly satirical statement nested within the quest for survival, identity, culture, and ethics. Unlike many interpretations of Tauromaquia that describe this series as a chronological evolution of what became known as contemporary bullfighting, Goya’s version inventively and creatively embraces tauromaquia as a multicultural development, with the belief that the Moorish past is...