1. Pablo Picasso Le Banderillero (B.940) hand-signed linocut image size: 21 x 25 The “Banderillero” is part of the matador’s entourage which also includes picadors and the mozo de espadas (sword page)

2. In a typical Bullfight, the bull enters the arena and is approached by picadors—men on horses who drive lances into his back and neck muscles.This attack impairs his ability to lift his head and defend himself

3. Other articles where Torero is discussed: bullfighting: Performers: Professional bullfighters, called toreros (they are famously called toreadors in Bizet’s opera Carmen, a word that harkens back to the days of mounted bullfighters), consist of the picadors, the mounted assistants with pike poles who lance the bull in the bullfight’s first act; the Banderilleros, the assistants on…