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La Tauromaquia (1816) publicises bullfighting as a numbered print spectacle of wounding

In 1816 Goya issued La Tauromaquia as a public print series of the corrida. This Fact stores the wounding-as-spectacle, not the later museum teaching of the plates. In the causal graph this event weakens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1816 Goya issued La Tauromaquia as a public print series of the corrida. This Fact stores the wounding-as-spectacle, not the later museum teaching of the plates.

Context

A print can document a popular sport and can train a gaze on animal and man wounded. Medium confidence.

Francisco Goya’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

The 1816 print series stages the corrida as public visual sport of wounding. Analogical humanitarian-adjacent spectacle. Medium confidence. Later BM teaching is access elsewhere.

Why it matters

1816 is not 1810 Desastres production.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Francisco Goya

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Museo Nacional del PradoMuseo Nacional del Prado · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.British Museum collection (Amarna letter holdings)British Museum · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

British Museum Tauromaquia holdings and Prado print history independently date the 1816 series.

Established: 1816 Tauromaquia as a public print set. Not established: a unique injury series caused by plates.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorFrancisco Goya
  2. contributed toFactLa Tauromaquia (1816) publicises bullfighting as a numbered print spectacle of wounding
  3. weakensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). La Tauromaquia (1816) publicises bullfighting as a numbered print spectacle of wounding. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/goy-tauromaquia-violence

https://factrail.ai/facts/goy-tauromaquia-violence

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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