Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy: Art, Science, and the Career of Baldassarre Peruzzi

摘要

Elusive, enigmatic, and engaging, Baldas-sarre Peruzzi (1481-1536) was among the most compelling artists of the Italian Renaissance. He was responsible for some of the greatest architectural achievements of the sixteenth century and was a pioneering antiquarian and draftsman. In Rome, he was a close collaborator with Raphael, Donato Bramante, and the Sangallo family architects, and in his native Siena, a skilled fortification architect and a knowledgeable designer of hydraulic works. In recent decades, his prolific graphic output and masterful constructions have rightfully been the subjects of a significant body of scholarship. Yet where much has been written in Italian and German, comparatively little has been published in English. Ann Huppert's Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy: Art, Science, and the Career of Baldassarre Peruzzi addresses this lacuna, providing the first English-language monograph on this exceptional artist in nearly a century.