12 Facts About Baldassare Peruzzi

Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi was an Italian architect and painter, born in a small town near Siena and died in Rome.

Baldassare Peruzzi worked for many years with Bramante, Raphael, and later Sangallo during the erection of the new St Peter's.

Baldassare Peruzzi returned to his native Siena after the Sack of Rome where he was employed as architect to the Republic.

Baldassare Peruzzi seems to have moved back to Rome permanently by 1535.

Baldassare Peruzzi died there the following year and was buried in the Rotunda of the Pantheon, near Raphael.

Baldassare Peruzzi was a painter of frescoes in the Cappella San Giovanni in the Duomo of Siena.

Baldassare Peruzzi then stopped painting until requested by his superiors at San Romano di Lucca to paint the organ doors of the church.

One example is the Sala delle Prospettive, in which Baldassare Peruzzi revived the perspective schemes of Melozzo da Forli and Mantegna, possibly under the influence of both.

The decoration of the facade, the work of Baldassare Peruzzi, has almost entirely vanished, but it is documented by an anonymous French artist in a drawing, now held by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art [2].

Baldassare Peruzzi had produced a mosaic ceiling for the church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome; the mosaic depicts the Saviour.

Baldassare Peruzzi was especially well known for his extraordinary studies of antique buildings, as seen in The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine in the Allen Memorial Art Museum.

Baldassare Peruzzi left drawings to a pupil, Sebastiano Serlio, who used them in several of his Books of Architecture, published in Venice beginning in the early 1530s.