Baldassarre Peruzzi - Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy

A leading architect of the Italian Renaissance, Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481-1536) has, until now, been a little-known, enigmatic figure. A paucity of biographical documentation and a modest number of surviving buildings, coupled with an undeservedly critical assessment by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), have long cast Peruzzi’s career in shadow. With Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy, Ann C. Huppert taps into a known, but neglected resource -Peruzzi’s autograph drawings - and reveals the full scope and artistic mastery of Peruzzi’s work and its enduring influence