JUAN DE VILLOLDO (c. 1516 - Carrion de los Condes, Palencia, 1562) "The Pieta with Saint John and the Magdalene"

Oil on panel. Although there are no documents that prove this, the Berruguetesque affiliations of his style and the link with some of his disciples allow us to assume that Juan de Villoldo must have trained with Alonso Berruguete. This is seen in this painting that we attribute to him here, in which you can see a series of stylistic features that derive directly from his apprenticeship with the master, such as: the spatial anguish of the composition, the unstable postures of the characters, the characteristic twilight environments. , chromatic contrasts and the use of foreshortening and human types with bulky heads. This work, which represents a theme from the cycle of the Passion of Christ, must have been part of some altarpiece, now dismantled, of which we have no documentary evidence and shows numerous formal parallels with the models used by the painter in the Boadilla groups. del Camino and Piña de Campos, both in the province of Palencia and also with the twill of the Descent from the Madrid History Museum. Measurements: 55.5 x 47 cm.