The sacrifice of Isaac.

Sculpture card:
Author: Alonso Berruguete.
Year: 1523-1532.
Style: Spanish Renassaince.
Technique: gilding technique.
Location: Cultural Museum of Sculpture in Valladolid, Spain.
General description: This sculture its represents when Abraham will kill his son Isaac.


The sacrifice of Isaac is a sculpture made of wood painted by artist Alonso Berruguete in 1526 for the altarpiece of San Benito Monastery in Valladolid.
Alonso Beuguete came from a family of artists, her father was a famous painter and Alonso was trained as a sculptor and as a painter in the family workshop. He traveled to Italy to continue his his training, when he retur to Spain made some important works like the martydom os San Esteban.

Berruguete in the sacrifice of Isaac, chooses the right moment of maximun tension when the father is about to kill his son, also is impotant to observa that in this work does not efer to the angel sent by Yahvé to stop the father, so the images have a force of impressive expresions.
The form of this sculpture are manierist. Berruguete has echoes of the work done by the same subject, notwithstanding the spanish figures acquire greater stenght and expressiveness perhaps influenced by the discovery at the time of hellenistic sculpture of Laocoon.

 The characters wear light clothes decorated with the technique of gilding showing much of their naked body where the artist highlights a natural figure, the canon is enlogated own manierism and twisted into grimaces of terror Isaac and pain Abraham.