Goring Bull

We can see a hidden image disguised in between the lines of the other objects on the painting. It's horns have penetrated the horse and is probably the fatal blow to the horse...as it would be in fact.

It has been a long standing tradition in Latin nations around the world to hold bull fights. This would be done with matadors and with matadors on horseback. The matadors would taunt the bull until he was exhausted and would deliver the final fatal thrust of their procession of swords to kill it outright... Unless the bull could do first. The horses were faster than the bulls and had that advantage, their dexterity and agility were about on parr... But sometimes, perhaps through some confusion or just being caught out, the bull would succeed in attacking the horse. The horses were equipped with some protection against the bull but in reality, if the bull managed to get a decent purchase, the horse was doomed. It's long sharp horns would pierce the horse fatally from underneath and would ultimately lead to the horses grim death.

The act of such devastating penetration has sexual metaphors intertwinned with the bull being male and sexual and also the hidden phallus which also forms part of the bulls head in this picture.

So, there are two bulls in the picture. The obvious one which is explicit, passive and dominant and the hidden one which we see here. Subversive, insidious and deadly.