BERRUGUETE, PEDRO and ALONSO. — PEDRO, painter, born at Paredes de Nava (Palencia) around 1450, died before 1505. He was formed in the Flemish tradition; later Piero della Francesca and Melozzo
da Forlì influenced him during a stay in Urbino, where he worked together with Giusto di Gand for the duke of Urbino. In 1483 he had returned to Spain. Numerous paintings by him with sacred subjects remain today in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, among them the Adoration of the Magi, S. Domenico and the Albigenses, S. Domenico di Guzman, the Apparition of the Virgin to a Community, and an Auto da fé in the presence of s. Domenico di Guzman, originating from the Sacristy of S. Tommaso di Avilo.
ALONSO, sculptor, son of Pedro, born at Paredes de Navas (Palencia) between 1486 and 1490, died in 1561. After his father’s death, around 1506, he came to Italy, where in Florence he copied the cartoon of the Battle of Cascina; in Rome he took part in a competition announced by Bramante for a copy of the Laocoön to be cast in bronze. Having returned to Spain, he left numerous works there. A. B. sought to reconcile the tendencies of traditional Spanish art with the spirit and forms of the Italian Renaissance. Particularly noteworthy among his works are the mausoleum of Cardinal Tavera in Toledo, the Salinas tomb at Palencia, and several polychrome wooden sculptures. The Holy Sepulchre of S. Girolamo in Granada is also his work, a work of great expressive force.