Pedro Berruguete was a Spanish painter; his art is regarded as a transitional style between gothic

Gothic art

Gothic art was a Medieval art movement that developed in France out of Romanesque art in the mid-12th century, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all of Western Europe, but took over art more completely north of the Alps, never quite effacing more classical...

 and Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

. Born in Paredes de Nava

Paredes de Nava

Paredes de Nava is a municipality located in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain.It is the birthplace of Renaissance painter Pedro Berruguete. Some paintings by him can be seen in the predella of the local church of Santa Eulalia. Other sights include the church of St. Martin ....

, Spain

Spain

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, he went to Italy in 1480 and worked in Federico III da Montefeltro's court in Urbino

Urbino

Urbino is a walled city in the Marche region of Italy, south-west of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially under the patronage of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino from 1444 to 1482...

, where he could see some works by Melozzo da Forlì

Melozzo da Forlì

Melozzo da Forlì was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect. His fresco paintings are notable for the use of foreshortening. He was the most important member of the Forlì painting school.- Biography :...

. Here he painted the Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro with His Son Guidobaldo

Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro with His Son Guidobaldo

The Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro and His Son Guidobaldo is a painting by Spanish Renaissance artist Pedro Berruguete, dating from c. 1475 and housed in the Galleria nazionale delle Marche in Urbino, Italy....

(c. 1475), now at the Galleria nazionale delle Marche.

He came back to Spain in 1482 and painted in several cities, such as Sevilla, Toledo

Toledo, Spain

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 and Ávila. He was the father of an important sculptor, Alonso Berruguete

Alonso Berruguete

Alonso González de Berruguete 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.Born in the town of Paredes de Nava, Berrugete studied art...

, considered the most important sculptor in Renaissance Spain. Furthermore, Pedro Berruguete painted famous paintings of the inquisition.

Sources

• Brown, Jonothan (1991).The Golden Age of Painting in Spain. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-4760-6
• Campbell, Gordon (2003) "Berruguete, Pedro (c. 1450-c. 1500)" The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance Oxford University Press, Oxford;
• Chilvers, Ian and Osborne, Harold (eds.) (1988) "Berruguete, Pedro (d. 1504)" The Oxford Dictionary of Art Oxford University Press, Oxford;
• Langmuir, Erika and Lynton, Norbert (2000) "Berruguete, Pedro (d. 1504)" The Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists Yale University Press, New Haven, CT;
• Osborne, Harold (ed.) (1970) "Berruguete, Pedro (d. c. 1503)" The Oxford Companion to Art Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England;
• Myers, Bernard S. (ed.) (1969) "Berruguete, Pedro" McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art McGraw-Hill, New York;
• Parry, Melanie (ed.) (1997) "Berruguete, Pedro (1450-1504)" Chambers Biographical Dictionary Sixth edition, Larousse Kingfisher Chambers, New York

External links

• Pedro Berruguete at the Web Gallery of Art
  Web Gallery of Art
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• http://www.pedroberruguete.com - A Spanish language
  Spanish language
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  website established on the fifth centennial of his death in 2004; however, it is no longer extant. It may be viewed at Web Archive with available images starting at page 89.