Alonso Berruguete

Alonso Berruguete (* 1480 in Parades de Nava, † 1561 in Toledo) was a Spanish sculptor, painter and architect.

Berruguete studied in Florence and Rome, where he worked a lot, from Michelangelo to antiquity. Returned to Spain in 1520, named him Charles V on his painter and sculptor as well as the overseer and director of the royal buildings. Berreguete created and decorated in this capacity, among other things, the new royal palace at Granada, its floor plan and the magnificent circular courtyard in the interior of vehicles with its colonnade of Breccienmarmor of the educated taste of the artist. The Archbishop of Toledo, Alonso de Fonseca, entrusted him with the work in the Great College, which he founded at Salamanca, the Archbishop of Cuenca, the. In the gallery of the Great College of his archdiocese

Also verfertigte Berruguete the altar of San Benito el Real Church in Valladolid, including his sculptural and pictorial decoration. In the cathedral of Toledo, he graced the choir with semi- raised work; a masterpiece is the Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor at the back of the choir, carved from a single piece of marble. His last work is the tomb of Cardinal Juan de Tavera at the hospital of St. John in Toledo. We still call under Berruguete's buildings, the Casa del Ayuntamiento (Town Hall ) in Seville, a pattern of simply - beautiful style which was prevalent through him instead of the previous overload in Spain. Berruguete died when Mr. Ventosa, a country seat at Alcalá de Henares.