Alonso Berruguete worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Alonso Berruguete as 16th century Spanish painter, sculptor and architect (c.1486-1561).
Alonso Berruguete was born at Paredes de Nava in 1486. His recorded nationality is Spain.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter, sculptor and architect.
Among his best-known works are Madonna with Child and Salome with the head of John the Baptist. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Spain shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Alonso Berruguete died in 1561, aged 75. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Madonna with Child
- Notable work: Salome with the head of John the Baptist
