Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (1481 – 1536)

• Was an Italian architect and painter.
• Peruzzi was born in a small town near Siena.
• He worked for many years with Bramante, Raphael, and later Sangallo during the erection of the new St. Peter's.
• He returned to his native Siena after the Sack of Rome (1527) 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 Giuncarico.
• He seems to have moved back to Rome permanently by 1535.
• He died there the following year and was buried in the Rotunda of the Pantheon, near Raphael.

• He was a painter of frescoes in the Cappella San Giovanni (Chapel of St John the Baptist) in the Duomo of Siena.

• His son Giovanni Sallustio was also an architect.

• Another son, Onorio, learned painting from his father, then became a Dominican priest.

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