Was a
Spanish painter; his art is regarded as a transitional style between gothic and
Renaissance. Berruguete painted famous paintings of the Inquisition. Born in
Paredes de Nava, Spain, he went to Italy in 1480 and worked in Federico III da
Montefeltro's court inUrbino, where he could see some works by Melozzo da
Forlì. Here he painted the Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro with His Son
Guidobaldo (c. 1475), now at the Galleria nazionale delle Marche.
He returned
to Spain in 1482 and painted in several cities, such as Sevilla, Toledo and
Ávila. He was the father of an important sculptor, Alonso Berruguete,
considered the most important sculptor in Renaissance Spain.
Alonso
González de Berruguete
(Paredes de Nava, Palencia, Spain, c.1490 — Toledo, Spain, 1561) He was a Spanish painter, sculptor and architect. He is considered to be the most important sculptor of the Spanish Renaissance, and is known for his emotive sculptures depicting religious ecstasy or torment.
(Paredes de Nava, Palencia, Spain, c.1490 — Toledo, Spain, 1561) He was a Spanish painter, sculptor and architect. He is considered to be the most important sculptor of the Spanish Renaissance, and is known for his emotive sculptures depicting religious ecstasy or torment.
Berruguete studied art under the tutelage of his father, and afterwards he studied sculpture in Florence and Rome under the Italian master, Michelangelo.
His paintings produced in Italy showed a mannerist influence, with his art being compared with contemporaries such as Jacopo Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino.
He was appointed to the position of court painter and sculptor by Charles I of Spain. From this point in his career forward, Berruguete concentrated on sculpture. Some of his works were an altarpiece at the Irish college in Salamanca (1529–1533), choir stalls at the Cathedral of Toledo (1539–1543) and a tomb for the Archbishop of Toledo Juan de Tavera.
One of his greatest altarpieces was created for the Monastery of S. Benito in Valladolid, the home of his studio and palace as well. Fragments of the altarpiece are now in the Valladolid Museum. His other work under Charles I included much completed in the Palace of El Pardo and in the Alhambra. He also sculpted an altar and tomb in the church of Santa Engracia and several sculptures for the cathedral of Toledo. It was here and around other structures in Toledo that he produced some of his greatest sculpting in bronze and marble, even into old age. This was seen when he
completed, at the age of eighty, a monument in Toledo of the Cardinal Archbishop Juan de Tavera at the hospital of St. John the Baptist
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