Self-portrait

Pedro Berruguete was the most important Castilian painter of the late fifteenth century, who brought Italian Renaissance techniques from the court of Urbino to transform Spanish painting. This Self-portrait was created around 1480 and is now held at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum Portraiture flourished during the Renaissance as humanism elevated the individual, with wealthy merchants, rulers, and churchmen commissioning likenesses as symbols of status, piety, and dynastic continuity.

Oil on panel combining Italian Renaissance spatial clarity with Spanish devotional intensity. The work demonstrates the artistic qualities characteristic of Pedro Berruguete's period.