El Casón del Buen Retiro y la exposición centenaria de Alonso Berruguete en 1961: cultura y propaganda entre España, Europa y América Latina

In light of several unpublished documents, this article examines the 1961 centennial exhibition organized by the Direccion General de Bellas Artes and held at the Cason del Buen Retiro in Madrid, which was dedicated to Alonso Berruguete. In doing so, it analyzes the political relevance attributed by the Francoist government to the cultural program hosted in that recently restored building as well as the diplomatic efforts made to publicize the Berruguete show in Europe and Latin America, offering an ideological vision of the art of the Castilian sculptor and of its usefulness for the cultural propaganda of the regime.