It is not sufficient to have reduced Pacchiarotti to his original mediocrity, and restored Del Pacchia to his sta tion in the annals of Sienna. Their countryman Peruzzi claims a more honorable attention than our age is usually willing to bestow; and it becomes necessary to rescue his pictorial labours from oblivion. It may be true as a ge neral proposition that his merits have been recognized, but in considering the manifold acquirements of st> versa tile a genius, it has been usual to study one side to the deti'iment of the other; and we are too apt to forget the painter in the architect. Baldassare Peruzzi was born at Sienna on the 7 th of March 1481, and was the son of a weaver. 1 In 1501, he was employed by the rector of the Duomo in the circular chapel dedicated to S. Giovanni, 2 a proof of his precocious powers. Amongst the artists to whom he may thus early have been indebted for instruction and advice, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi was the most remarkable. He had been brought from Lombardy to Sienna by an agent of the Spannochi family, at the close of the fifteenth century, and obtained immediate encouragement as well as satisfactory commissions. From Bazzi Baldassare pro bably took something of the Leonardesque; but he had scarcely received payment for his work in S. Giovanni of Sienna, when his sympathy was won by Pinturicchio who had just obeyed the summons of Cardinal Piccolomini. Peruzzi in this way combined his own style with the Lombard and the Umbrian, and went thus fortified to Rome about the year 1504. 3 Though untried, and pro- their followers) may be found in the composition and distance. The execution is not on a level with the conception, the colour being light and a little gay in the Sien nese manner, and suggesting the name of Pacchia. 1 Register of Baptisms at Sienna (cit. com. Vas. VIII. 220). Baldas- sare’s father was Giovanni di Sal- vestro di Salvadore Peruzzi, wea ver of Volterra, who came to Sienna as a settler between 1475 and 1481. 2 1501. Aug. 15 th , he receives 42 lire for paintings in that place. Com. in Vas. VIII. 238. 3 He went, according to Vasari, with one Piero of Volterra to Rome (VIII. 220) about the close of the papacy of Alexander the Sixth. A record is preserved in which this very Pietro (Maestro Pietro del fu Andrea da Volterra)