Pietá

The painting that comes from a private collection was acquired by the State in 1997 to illustrate a fundamental period of our Art History, the introduction of the Renaissance in Spain and to help understand the initial education of his son, Alonso Berruguete, one of the best represented artists in the Museum. The canvas of the Pieta shows the Virgin in front of the cross holding her dead's son body, assuming a symbolic role as mediator and co-redeemer, flanked by the two figures of Mary representing human beings. The elements of the spatial settings and the architecture have disappeared, polishing the motives to outline the represented theme. The golden curtain in the back and the halos with inscription that frame the heads of the feminine characters are Gothic traces that Berruguete reinterprets with mastery. An extremely detailed drawing, a serene color applied with masterful glazes that allowed the painter to capture the textures of the materials, or the side effect of the light, that helps to create the volume of the figures and give depth to the scene, are aspects that stand out in a piece that also foretells the step to Renaissance, with its monument and wideness of its shape, in the mastery of the anatomy, in its serene and concentrated emotion and in its balanced composition