"The unusual personality of is reflected in an extraordinary number of portraits. They begin in his early youth, and d…"

"The fact that some of the noblest and most highly esteemed examples that survive to us of the best days of painting a…"

"Independent portrait sculpture was revived around the middle of the in three main forms—the , the , and the . Equestr…"

""Commemoration" was a particularly important function of portraiture. 's well-known dictum on the ability of painting…"

"Whether or not the artistic quality of the bullfight outweighs the moral question of the animals’ suffering is someth…"

"There is an image I will never lose, much as I wish I could. It is of a man standing with half his face held in his r…"

"The crowd are on their feet, stamping and cheering, but El Cid just stands and stares at the bull in grave silence, h…"

"What you are interested in is the art whereby a man using no tricks reduces a raging bull to his dimensions, and this…"

"At the first bullfight I ever went to I expected to be horrified and perhaps sickened by what I had been told would h…"

"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the p…"