Plaza Mayor; Plaza del Arrabal; Juan de Herrera; toros; fiestas de juegos y cañas; auto de fe; Madrid; siglo XVII; pintura; Museo Municipal de Madrid - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 15:12:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Plaza Mayor; Plaza del Arrabal; Juan de Herrera; toros; fiestas de juegos y cañas; auto de fe; Madrid; siglo XVII; pintura; Museo Municipal de Madrid - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Madrid’s Plaza Mayor during a royal bullfight https://historylab.es/madrids-plaza-mayor-during-a-royal-bullfight/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=madrids-plaza-mayor-during-a-royal-bullfight Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:09 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-plaza-mayor-de-madrid-durante-una-corrida-de-toros-regia/ The painting reflects one of the everyday uses of the square in different celebrations throughout the 17th century

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]]> The anonymous painting depicts a bullfight in the Plaza Mayor, which has been fitted out for the purpose with wooden latticework as barriers and raised stands at the mouths of the street. In the moat, several knights are accompanied by a number of footmen dressed in liveries of their own colours while a bull is being bucked off. Philip IV presides over the spectacle from the royal balcony of the Casa de la Panadería, which looks as it did before the fire it suffered in the 1670s. Soldiers of the Royal Guard guard under the royal balcony.

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