ABSTRACT
The part played by Spain in the history of the European Renaissance was a special one, since its development was largely due to external circumstance. The revival of learning in Spain differed essentially from that in Italy. About 1500, a few adventurous spirits from the botteghe of Italian sculptors found their way to Spain, where they spread the new artistic Gospel and established the principles of the Quattrocento. Contemporary with Formont was a group of foreign sculptors working at Seville who represented the dominant influences which ultimately marked the later Renaissance and Baroque-Spanish styles. The greatest of the native Spanish sculptors of the early sixteenth century who adopted the Italian manner was Alonso Berruguete. Of all European countries, France was the first and closest to absorb the influence of the Italian revival. German sculpture, throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, consisted mainly of wood-carving.
