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at Siena. As our master interested himself in the decorative art also, he exercised a strong influence in this direction, not only by his own decorative paintings but also by furnishing designs for craftsmen of various kinds. While primarily known as an architect, one of his great loves was drawing.
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many artists were employed, and just as the style of the villa in no wise recalls the old castellated type of country-house, so the paintings in harmony with the pleasure-loving spirits of the time were thoroughly antique and uninspired by
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where he was employed as architect to the Republic. For the Sienese he built new fortifications for the city and designed (though did not build) a remarkable dam on the Bruna River near
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Sebastiano Serlio, Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture: Books I-V of Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva, trans. Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks (New Haven, Yale Univ. Press: 1996).
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The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, 1502-1503: Baldassare Peruzzi (Italian, 1481-1573):Tempura and Oil on panel, transferred to masonite:Diameter: 24 ½ in. (62.2 cm)
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in Florence. He was especially well known for his extraordinary studies of antique buildings, as seen in The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (1502–1503) in the
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Ann C. Hupert, Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy: Art, Science and the Career of Baldassare Peruzzi (New Haven, Yale University Press: 2015)
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His extraordinary pen and ink drawings for the basilica of St. Peter's are preserved in the Prints and Drawings Collection of the
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in Rome. He then stopped painting until requested by his superiors at San Romano di Lucca to paint the organ doors of the church.
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was also an architect. Another son, Onorio, learned painting from his father, then became a Dominican priest in the convent of
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Wolfgang Lotz and Deborah Howard, Architecture In Italy 1500-1600 (New Haven, Yale Univ. Press: 1995): 1-98.
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Almost all art critics ascribe the design of the Villa Chigi in Rome, now known more commonly as the
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The History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Graving, and of Those who have Excelled in them
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Web Gallery of Art: Perspective View of the Sala delle Prospettive
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Memorie dei più insigni pittori, scultori e architetti Dominicani
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Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
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Bust and Epitaph in the Rotunda of the Pantheon, Rome, Italy.
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Peruzzi had produced a mosaic ceiling for the church of
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Italian Paintings: Sienese and Central Italian Schools
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Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Giorgio Vasari
Siena
Republic of Siena
Rome
Papal States
Italian
Painting
Architecture
Villa Farnesina
Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne
High Renaissance
Mannerism
architect
painter
Siena
Sovicille
Rome
Bramante
Raphael
Sangallo
St. Peter's
Sack of Rome (1527)
Giuncarico
Duomo of Siena
Giovanni Sallustio
Santa Maria Sopra Minerva
Villa Farnesina
pilasters

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