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Acclaimed as a draftsman, painter, and architect, Baldassarre Peruzzi's contemporaries repeatedly praised his knowledge of the antique. An extensive corpus of drawings testifies to his lifelong investigations and these multifaceted explorations of ancient architecture extend from the abstraction of theory to the aesthetics of form and the concrete elements of materials and construction techniques. Together these grounded his architectural designs.
The models of the past, however, served not as constraints but instead fueled Peruzzi's imagination, guided by his keen powers of discernment. Serlio, Cellini and Vasari all signaled this buon giudizio. Peruzzi's knowledge of the past proves to have fostered the inventiveness for which his work remains celebrated. This paper explores the interplay of antiquarian knowledge and invention in Peruzzi's architectural designs, both envisioned and built and ranging from ecclesiastical to residential.