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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alonso Berruguete |
 | | He was the second son of the painter, Pedro Berruguete, who was his first instructor. |
 | | After a long residence in Italy, Berruguete, in 1520, went back to Spain, where he was greatly honoured by Charles V, who appointed him a chamberlain, and court painter and sculptor, and gave him much work to do at Madrid, at the Palace of El Pardo, and at the Alhambra. |
 | | There also, in the hospital of St. John the Baptist, is one of his finest works, executed when he was nearly eighty years of age, the monument of its founder, the Cardinal Archbishop Juan de Tavera. |
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