Male Head in Profile

1501·Pen and brown ink over traces of graphite, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper·8.5 × 6.9 cm (3 3/8 × 2 3/4 in.)

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Catalogue

Year: 1501
Medium: Pen and brown ink over traces of graphite, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 8.5 × 6.9 cm (3 3/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Baldassare Peruzzi

Artist

Baldassare Peruzzi

Painting

Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi was an Italian architect and painter, born in a small town near Siena and died in Rome. 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 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.

Siena

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