Francisco Romero (matador)

Francisco Romero (1700 - 1763) was a Spanish Matador of first order. It is considered that it is him which introduced the use of the Muleta towards 1726 and of the sword to put at dead the bull ( Estocade ). Its grandson is Pedro Romero.

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In the first years of the 18th century, Ronda, Francisco Romero, at the end of a race, asks for the authorization of kill itself the bull. After having made it charge two or three times a lure made with fabric, estoque Francisco Romero the Bull using its sword. Thereafter, it starts again in other arenas and becomes a true professional. Francisco Romero is generally regarded as “the inventor” of the modern Corrida.

In fact, it seems that this setting with dead bull by thrust was practiced quite front him, in particular by employees of the slaughter-houses sévillans which transformed their trade of killers of bulls by putting it in scene for a public increasingly more. In any case, if Francisco Romero is not truly “the inventor” of the modern bullfight, he is the first matador to have exerted his art in a usual and professional way. Moreover, its successes involve a radical change in the art of toréer: until him, the main character is still the Picador; after the picador, the important thing, they are the plays; the setting with dead is only the end (the “fine” word used in the direction “termination”) of the spectacle. After him, the picador starts to lose of sound will have, the plays are only one “interlude”, the setting with death becomes the end (the “fine” word used in the direction “drank”) spectacle.

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