The Virgin and Child with Saint Martina; Another Study of Saint Martina; Studies of a Head; and of an Arcade (recto); Figure Studies (verso); 1596-1669; Pen and brown ink; over black chalk; 6 7/16 x 7 5/16in. (16.3 x 18.6cm); Drawings; Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (Italian; Cortona 1596-1669 Rome); The Roman martyr Saint Martina; kneeling before the Virgin and about to receive a flower from the Christ Child; was a subject frequently painted by Cortona. It was in the course of excavations for the crypt of the church of the Academy of Saint Luke in Rome that the body of Saint Martina was discovered