부산대학교 도서관

(b Ancaiano, nr. Siena, Jan 15, 1481; d Rome, Jan 6, 1536). Italian architect, painter, and draftsman. Although his career lay wholly within the 16th century and on his death he was honored by burial in the Pantheon in Rome next to Raphael, he was a transitional figure between the early Renaissance and the High Renaissance in Italy. Yet certain of his works had a strong influence on later architects in the 16th century, and his architectural theories can be said to have been extremely forward-looking. It is the balance between traditional and advanced thinking that characterizes Peruzzi’s life and career. His activity is distinguished by a very personal re-elaboration of the all’antica language, combining ancient and modern forms, as well as 15th-century ones and with his own inventions, in search of variety rather than a norm. Consider, for example, the nature of his architectural practice. He was brought up in Siena. He was, when circumstances demanded, capable of serving as a practical architectural all-rounder: he seems to have moved easily from minting coins to building palaces, from military architecture to figural painting, in a way that was characteristic of artistic practice in the 15th century (see, for example, the career of Michelozzo di Bartolomeo or Francesco di Giorgio Martini). Yet Peruzzi was also an artist and architect of great erudition, without equal as a draftsman and noted for his extraordinary knowledge of antiquities. He worked on a book on the Antiquities of Rome and on a Commentary on the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius. Books III and IV on Architecture by Sebastiano Serlio owe a lot to this work, as stated by the same author. Like Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci he frequented the highest levels of Roman and papal artistic culture. That Peruzzi’s name is not better known was due, according to Giorgio Vasari, to the fact that he was too timid, but most likely because despite the fact that he designed a lot, he completed only a few works. The many existing attributions can be seen as an evidence of this and many of his ideas can only be recognized in the built and written works of his numerous pupils. In short, Peruzzi offers a multi-faceted career and a personality that resist easy interpretation....