Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (below), Abraham about to Sacrifice Isaac (above). Artist: Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) (Italian, Florence 1501-1547 Rome). Dimensions: 8 7/8 x 10 1/16in. (22.6 x 25.5cm). Date: 1520.One of the first independent projects Perino del Vaga undertook after the death of his master Raphael in 1520 was the decoration in fresco of the Pucci chapel in the Roman Church of Trinità dei Monti for the powerful Florentine cardinal Lorenzo Pucci (1458-1531). In the triangular-shaped compartments of the High Gothic-style vault, a challenging and awkward pictorial field, particularly for multifigured narrative compositions, the artist executed scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary, to whom the chapel was dedicated. A preparatory study for one of the frescoes, this confident drawing--characterized by a fluid handling of different media, and squared for enlargement in order to transfer the design to the vault--attests to Perino's prodigious gifts as a dr