This section presents studies and bozzetti (oil sketches) made in the course of his entire brief life: The Meeting of Mary Magdalene and Jesus was a subject he approached starting in 1876 but never concluded; the plan for Sienese Women Working on the Fortifications of the City bears witness to his initial idea for the painting sent from Rome to the Società delle Pie Disposizioni in Siena in 1878; the bozzetto for La Fornarina Surprised by Raphael can be assigned to more or less the same year. The life studies of landscapes, used as settings for his history paintings, were done at the beginning of the next decade. The Portrait of a Blonde Girl and the Praying Angel are studies for the mural painted in 1883 in the Pollini chapel of the Misericordia cemetery in Siena; finally, the Boy Climbing a Tree can be found in the Meeting at Teano in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena (1887).