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| Giovanni Battista Cecchi after a drawing by Ignazio Enrico Hugford Portrait of Baldassare Peruzzi, Sienese Painter and Architect 1769-75 etching, published in Florence British Museum |
"Then in the year 1527, when the cruel sack of Rome took place, our poor Baldassare was taken prisoner by the Spaniards, and not only lost all his possessions, but was also much maltreated and outraged, because he was grave, noble, and gracious of aspect, and they believed him to be some great prelate in disguise, or some other man able to pay a fat ransom. Finally, however, these impious barbarians having found that he was a painter, one of them, who had borne a great affection to Bourbon, caused him to make a portrait of that most rascally captain, the enemy of God and man, either letting Baldassare see him as he lay dead, or giving him his likeness in some other way, with drawings or words. After this, having slipped from their hands, Baldassare took ship to go to Porto Ercole, and thence to Siena; but on the way he was robbed of everything and stripped to such purpose, that he went to Siena in his shirt. However, he was received with honour and reclothed by his friends, and a little time afterwards he was given a provision and a salary by the Commonwealth, to the end that he might give his attention to the fortification of that city. Living there, he had two children; and, besides what he did for the public service, he made many designs of houses for his fellow citizens, and the design for the ornament of the organ, which is very beautiful, in the Church of the Carmine."
"Meanwhile, the armies of the Emperor and the Pope had advanced to the siege of Florence, and his Holiness sent Baldassare to the camp to Baccio Valori, the Military Commissary, to the end that Baccio might avail himself of his services for the purposes of his operations and for the capture of the city. But Baldassare, loving the liberty of his former country more than the favour of the Pope, and in no way fearing the indignation of so great a Pontiff, would never lend his aid in any matter of importance. The Pope, hearing of this, for a short time bore him no little ill-will; but when the war was finished, Baldassare desiring to return to Rome, Cardinals Salviati, Trivulzi, and Cesarino, to all of whom he had given faithful service in many works, restored him to the favour of the Pope and to his former appointments."
– Giorgio Vasari, from the life of Baldassare Peruzzi in The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1568), translated by Gaston du C. de Vere (1912)
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| Marcantonio Raimondi after a drawing now at Chatsworth by Baldassare Peruzzi Roman Sarcophagus-relief with Lion Hunt ca. 1510-27 engraving British Museum |
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| Anonymous Roman copyist after a lost drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi Discovery of the True Cross ca. 1515-20 drawing British Museum |
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| Anonymous Roman copyist after a lost drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi Decapitation of a group of Martyrs ca. 1510-1600 drawing British Museum |
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| Anonymous Roman copyist after a fresco by Baldassare Peruzzi Noah's wife with two of her children from the ceiling of the Stanza d'Eliodoro in the Vatican ca. 1520-1600 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni da Brescia after a drawing in the British Museum by Baldassare Peruzzi Joseph's cup found in Benjamin's sack ca. 1520 engraving British Museum |
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| Ugo da Carpi after a lost drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi Apollo directing Hercules to drive Avarice from the Temple of the Muses ca. 1522-24 chiaroscuro woodcut British Museum |
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| Hieronymus Cock after a lost exterior fresco by Baldassare Peruzzi Mars and Venus observed by the Olympian Gods 1553 engraving British Museum |
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| Gijsbert van Veen after a painted panorama by Baldassare Peruzzi Wedding of Rebekah and Isaac (plate 1) 1585 four-plate engraving British Museum |
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| Gijsbert van Veen after a painted panorama by Baldassare Peruzzi Wedding of Rebekah and Isaac (plate 2) 1585 four-plate engraving British Museum |
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| Gijsbert van Veen after a painted panorama by Baldassare Peruzzi Wedding of Rebekah and Isaac (plate 3) 1585 four-plate engraving British Museum |
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| Gijsbert van Veen after a painted panorama by Baldassare Peruzzi Wedding of Rebekah and Isaac (plate 4) 1585 four-plate engraving British Museum |
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| Anne-Claude de Caylus after a drawing in the Crozat collection by Baldassare Peruzzi Stucco Reliefs on the Colosseum, Rome ca. 1729-40 etching British Museum |
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| Stefano Mulinari after a fresco by Baldassare Peruzzi Jupiter and Europa with Bull, standing on clouds ca. 1760-90 etching, based on an intermediate drawing by Pietro da Cortona British Museum |
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| Stefano Mulinari after a fresco by Baldassare Peruzzi Saturn, Cupid, and Venus standing on clouds ca. 1760-90 etching, based on an intermediate drawing by Pietro da Cortona British Museum |
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| Stefano Mulinari after a fresco by Baldassare Peruzzi Venus standing on a shell, drying her hair ca. 1760-90 etching, based on an intermediate drawing by Pietro da Cortona British Museum |