这本插图精美的目录是**本全面介绍阿隆索•贝鲁古特的艺术和职业生涯的英文目录。本书介绍了他的职业生涯，从他在卡斯蒂利亚的开头几年到他在托莱多（他在这里创作了最后一部伟大的作品，红衣主教胡安•德塔维拉的大理石墓）的最后几年。对贝鲁古特生平和职业的重要方面的讨论丰富了按时间顺序的叙述：他与社会地位和财富的复杂关系；他作为一个擅长会画的人的活动和对版画的使用；他如何与许多助手一起创作木雕；以及他作为艺术家留下的遗产。

The first comprehensive account in English of Renaissance Spain's preeminent sculptor Alonso Berruguete (c. 1488-1561) revolutionized the arts of Renaissance Spain with a dramatic style of sculpture that reflected the decade or more he had spent in Italy while young. Trained as a painter, he traveled to Italy around 1506, where he interacted with Michelangelo and other leading artists. In 1518, he returned to Spain and was appointed court painter to the new king, Charles I. Eventually, he made his way to Valladolid, where he shifted his focus to sculpture, opening a large workshop that produced breathtaking multistory altarpieces (retablos) decorated with sculptures in painted wood. This handsomely illustrated catalogue is the first in English to treat Berruguete's art and career comprehensively. It follows his career from his beginnings in Castile to his final years in Toledo, where he produced his last great work, the marble tomb of Cardinal Juan de Tavera. Enriching the chronological narrative are discussions of important aspects of Berruguete's life and practice: his complicated relationship with social status and wealth; his activity as a draftsman and use of prints; how he worked with his many assistants to create his wood sculptures; and his legacy as an artist.