He also denounced those who voted against bullfighting but protected the correbous, a form of bull-taunting popular in village fiestas in southern Catalonia.
Its representation as a bull is related to the Greek myth of Zeus, who assumed the form of a bull to abduct Europa.
The work depicts Hercules and the river god Achelous, in the form of a bull, fighting over the beautiful Deianeira.
This year the reminder of that came in the form of a bull shark, which attacked an 8-year-old boy named Jessie Arbogast on July 6 at the Gulf Islands National Seashore near Pensacola, Fla.
Next to the editorial is a cartoon showing Europe in the form of a bull attached via a rope to a pillar from the Acropolis, which is just about to pull Europe off a cliff face.
The van Haarlem depicts a scene from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in which Hercules and the river god Achelous, in the form of a bull, battle over the beautiful Deianeira.
Zeus, for example, assumed the form of a bull when he carried off Europa, a Phoenician princess, and he appeared in the guise of a swan in order to attract Leda, wife of a king of Sparta.
A splendid piece of plate is a silver counterpart of a black steatite, or soapstone, libation vase from Knossos in the form of a bull's head, with gold horns, a gold rosette on the forehead, and gold-plated muzzle, ears, and eyes.
The Roman myth refers to Canis Major as Custos Europae, the dog guarding Europa but failing to prevent her abduction by Jupiter in the form of a bull, and as Janitor Lethaeus, "the watchdog".
Bacon was fascinated by the bullfight, or corrida, a motif that recurs in his work in the form of circling bulls, ringed spaces, thrusting horns, gored legs.
