/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/larazon/HY2XIQFC3FFXXMYWD6HAPO4VWE.jpg "The pictorial jewel that returns to Madrid after its tour of Washington and Dallas")
the play the Virgin of the Milk, one of the most representative of the San Isidro Museum, returns to the facilities of this space of the Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports, where you can see from this Tuesday.
After his assignment to the Prado Museum, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Meadows Museum in Dallas, recovers its original location, explained the City Council in a statement.
This painting is the work of the palentino artist Pedro Berruguete, born in Paredes de Nava in the mid-15th century, where his family must have settled a few decades earlier from Vizcaya.
Berruguete trained in Castile with a teacher influenced by Flemish models and traveled to Italy around 1472, there he worked for the court of Federico de Montefeltro (Urbino). In 1480 he returned to Castile, where he spent the rest of his life and did most of his work.
Hispano-Flemish influences prevailing in Castile during the 15th century, together with the Renaissance innovations learned in Italy, can be appreciated in his style.
In this table represents the Virgin with the child; María is breastfeeding her son under a pavilion made with elements of different shapes. Examples of Renaissance architecture are the Corinthian capitals and semicircular arches. In the background you can see the late Gothic architecture with pointed arches and in the coffered ceiling, in Moorish interlocking, the Hispano-Muslim imprint.
The piece includes scenes from the Old Testament; thus, in two lower niches, Adam appears leaning on a hoe and Eve trying to cover herself with her hands and from the New Testament the scene of the Annunciation stands out in the upper niches, where the Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary are, towards whom the dove of the Holy Spirit, located in the central wheel of the roof, is directed.
Some historians consider that the work was commissioned by Beatriz Galindo, La Latina, for the hospital on Toledo Street. The work was located in the Town Hall warehouses in the mid-20th century and was studied by the specialist Manuel Gómez-Moreno, who considered it one of the best paintings made in Spain by Pedro Berruguete.
In another order of things, and thanks to the collaboration agreements between the different artistic institutions, the San Isidro Museum has had at its disposal the painting ‘The Virgin of Atocha’ by the Asturian painter Juan Carreño de Miranda, a work from the 17th century on loan from the Prado Museum.
In this sense, Madrid City Council received another seven paintings whose themes are directly related to the city. They are ‘Mariana of Austria’ (the work of an anonymous author), ‘Felipe V, King of Spain’ (by Hyacinthe Rigaud), ‘Prince Baltasar Carlos’ (by Velázquez’s workshop), ‘Bárbara de Braganza’ (by an anonymous painter), ‘Carlos V y Felipe II’ (by Antonio Arías Fernández), ‘Drinkers seated at a table in the Levante café, in Madrid’ and ‘Gentlemen conversing in the Levante café, in Madrid’, both compositions by the artist Leonardo Alenza Nieto.
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