(b Toledo, c. 1490; d Granada, 4 Aug 1550). Spanish painter and architect. The form of his signature (Petrus Machuca, Hispanus. Toletanus ...) on his earliest known work, the Virgin of Succour (1517; Madrid, Prado), suggests he was active at an early age in Italy. On the basis of the style of that work, a number of frescoes in the Vatican have been attributed to him, including Isaiah Blessing Jacob. Other works from the same period that have been attributed to him include a copy (Paris, Louvre) of the destroyed Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci and two paintings of the Virgin and Child (Rome, Gal. Borghese, and Turin, Gal. Sabauda), some drawings and the original drawings for reproductive engravings by Marcantonio Raimondi and Agostino Veneziano.

• Machuca, Pedro
  • Estilo desornamentado
  • Spain, §III, 2: Painting and graphic arts, c 1500–c 1600
  • collaboration
    • Polidoro da Caravaggio
  • groups and movements
    • Plateresque style
  • patrons and collectors
    • Granada, §III, 1(v): Alhambra architecture: the palace of Charles V
    • Habsburg, §I: (5) Charles V, §2: Early reign, 1519–28
  • works
    • Catafalque
    • Frame, §VIII, 2: Spain: Renaissance
    • Frame, §VIII, 3: Spain: Mannerist
    • Granada, §III, 1(iii): Alhambra: Sala de la Barca & other third-period Nasrid monuments
    • Spain, §II, 2(ii): Architecture, c 1500–c 1600: Renaissance, decorated and severe