A BIT IN DEEP: BALDASSARRE PERUZZI

Baldassarre was one of many artists attracted by the irresistible and joyful personality of Raphael, with whom he collaborated on several occasions, in particular at Villa Madama and  San Pietro in Vatican.

During the Sack of Rome in 1527, he was captured and abused by a gang of mercenaries. For his release was paid a ransom. Fled from Rome he repaired to Siena.

Shortly after 1530 he returned to Rome where he died in 1536, according to Vasari very poor, but this seems to be a poetic license of imaginative Vasari, since, as proof of his great fame, he was buried beside his friend Raphael in the Pantheon.

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