The Bullfighting Museum is located in the basement of the grandstands in the stands 10 and 12 of the square bulls de Seville, and its owner the Royal Cavalry of Seville.
History:
On the initiative of the Royal Cavalry, the museum was inaugurated on 5 April 1989 in a ceremony officiated by His Royal Highness the Countess of Barcelona. Distributed in several vaulted naves were formerly used as warehouses, shows the history of National Day with various arts: paintings, posters, bronzes, tiles, pictures, etc.. in addition to preserving memories and personal elements of the great figures of bullfighting.
Access is located in a door attached to the Prince (door is where they exit the bullfighters winners in the run).
Content and rooms:
Its content differs in two main collections, one for the Royal Cavalry, another dedicated to bullfighting. Turn is divided into four rooms.
First Chamber: funds are retained longest, most notably a poster on silk (at the entrance) dating from the year 1740, there are also a representation of existing workers in the eighteenth century as drummers, hamstrung, lancers, and a space dedicated to the knightly games were played in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by the nobility, which distinguishes a picture of those games made by King Philip V. You can also see a uniform that was donated by Don Carlos of Bourbon Two Sicilies and Bourbon.
Second Chamber: This room is a collection of paintings of bullfighting theme, dating from the nineteenth century, among them the titled "Fuck death of Pepe Hillo" of Eugenio Lucas Velazquez by the realism with which it was collected.
Room Three: It is dedicated to bullfighting in the era of Juan Belmonte and Joselito "El Gallo" highlighting bronze sculptures and paintings of these famous bullfighters.
Fourth room: This room houses the largest collection is modern and recent, and its content is varied, and can be seen from stuffed bulls' heads up costumes (bullfighter) and capes, and important paintings and paintings by contemporary authors.
In general, the museum contains bronze busts of bullfighters of all time such as: Curro Cúchares, Pepe-Hillo, El Espartero, Ribs, Joselito "El Gallo", Juan Belmonte, Pepe Luis Vázquez, Curro Romero, etc. Photographs can also be seen, both paintings of bullfighters and the same Maestranza (including fit out the table Valerito torero, torero who was the first who died in the Arsenal, and also the portrait of Ferdinand VII, who was the restorer of bullfighting in Spain while the founder of the School of Bullfighting in Seville, this work was performed by José Gutiérrez de la Vega), and others made by famous artists such as César Ruano, Hohenlohe, Resendi Romero, Alfonso Grosso and struggle cloak signed by Picasso, old posters of runs (some with a curious content) costumes and costume also of all ages (among them stands out Joselito worn at the age of 14 years); tools for fighting , prints, tiles and sculptures (the bull of Mariano Benlliure and other works of Luis Benedito, Coello de Portugal, Baker Clemente Bonilla), romantic prints, heads of famous bulls, such as "Isler" the mother of the bull (Islero ) that killed Manolete.