Alonso Berruguete (ca. 1488–1561)

• Alonso González de Berruguete was a Spanish painter, sculptor and architect.
• Born in the town of Paredes de Nava.
• Berruguete studied art under the tutelage of his father, the painter Pedro Berruguete.
• Berruguete travelled to Italy to continue his study of art, spending most of his time in Florence and Rome.
• It is here that he studied sculpture under the Italian master, Michelangelo.
• In Florence he was engaged by the nuns of San Geronimo to finish an altarpiece left unfinished at his death by Filippo Lippi.
• Berruguete returned to Spain in 1517, and in 1518, was appointed to the position of court painter and sculptor by Charles V of Spain, who gave him much work to do at Madrid.
• Berruguete concentrated primarily on sculpture.
• In 1519 he collaborated with Felipe Bigarny on the tomb of Cardinal Juan Selvagio in the Church of Santa Engracia de Zaragoza. 

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