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Survivors of a mass food poisoning four decades ago have occupied Madrid's El Prado art gallery, threatening to commit suicide if the government does not

Seeking to breathe new life into Madrid's Prado museum after the long months of the pandemic, curators have overhauled the collection to display more works by female artists and better reflect the variety of 19th-century art.

The role of the matador is to lead the bull until its final moment, a life-or-death dance that blurs the differences between man and animal. In Francisco Goya’s painting Self-Portrait at an Easel, he poses in crimson-coloured matador’s garb. His …