Pucci Chapel Vault study 2   

Meeting at the Porta Aurea (1521-1523)

by:   Perino      category: Drawing    location: Pucci Chapel

note:  Preparatory drawing for work in Pucci Chapel (two others exist: Louvre n. 595-56 and Metropolitan Museum of Art n. 63.75.1); Davidson (1968) proposes a date before Perino left Rome to escape the plague (in the spring of 1522); one of the designs Perino used for the lunettes of Leo X's loggia (pp. 18-19).