Pedro Berruguete trained in the Flemish style around 1470, possibly under the tutorship of Fernando Gallego. By the end of 1470s he had moved to Italy, where he lived for several years. Although he never forsook the Flemish Gothic style in which he had been educated, he enhanced it with Renaissance novelties and went on to introduce the new style to Spain.
In 1477 Berruguete and Justus of Ghent were involved in decorating Federico da Montefeltro's studiolo and library at the ducal palace in Urbino (scene of the conversations in Baldassare Castiglione's Book of the Courtier. They painted a series of idealised portraits of illustrious figures (sages from antiquity and the Middle Ages) and a few small tableaux of the liberal arts, now dispersed amongst several museum collections.
Back in Spain, he worked on the altarpieces of Santa María del Campo in Burgos, Paredes de Nava in Palencia, and in Avila, the Convent of San Tómas and the main altarpiece of the cathedral. Almost all the panels on display in the Prado Museum come from the minor altarpieces at San Tómas, dedicated to St. Dominic and St. Peter the Martyr. Berruguete died in Avila, leaving the cathedral's altarpiece unfinished.
Pedro Berruguete trained in the Flemish style around 1470, possibly under the tutorship of Fernando Gallego. By the end of 1470s he had moved to Italy, where he lived for several years. Although he never forsook the Flemish Gothic style in which he had been educated, he enhanced it with Renaissance novelties and went on to introduce the new style to Spain.
In 1477 Berruguete and Justus of Ghent were involved in decorating Federico da Montefeltro's studiolo and library at the ducal palace in Urbino (scene of the conversations in Baldassare Castiglione's Book of the Courtier. They painted a series of idealised portraits of illustrious figures (sages from antiquity and the Middle Ages) and a few small tableaux of the liberal arts, now dispersed amongst several museum collections.
Back in Spain, he worked on the altarpieces of Santa María del Campo in Burgos, Paredes de Nava in Palencia, and in Avila, the Convent of San Tómas and the main altarpiece of the cathedral. Almost all the panels on display in the Prado Museum come from the minor altarpieces at San Tómas, dedicated to St. Dominic and St. Peter the Martyr. Berruguete died in Avila, leaving the cathedral's altarpiece unfinished.