New York City.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently showing “Perino del Vaga in New York Collections”, on view through February 5th 2012. Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi, 1501-1547), a pupil of Raphael, was a leading innovator of the late Renaissance style known as Mannerism, and one of the most influential Italian artists of the 16th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired a painting and a drawing by the master, and they are both featured in Perino del Vaga in New York Collections, on view from September 27, 2011, through February 5, 2012.  The new acquisitions are seen alongside some 18 drawings by the artist from the Metropolitan Museum, the Morgan Library & Museum, and private collections, as well as a second painting from a New York private collection.