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| Bartolomeo Passarotti Head of a man ca. 1560-70 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti Bust of Minerva before 1592 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti St Jerome in Penitence ca. 1575 drawing British Museum |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti St Jerome in Penitence ca. 1575 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti after Michelangelo Seated figure and part of another figure from Last Judgment fresco ca. 1550-65 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti after Michelangelo Studies of the statue of Dawn from Medici Tomb, Florence 1550 drawing Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City |
"Bartolomeo Passarotti (1529-1592) made fewer gestures in the direction of Carraccesque modernity, but his art conveys a more convincing sense of search, invention, and directed growth – all, however, within limits still defined by the Maniera style. He let certain of his ideas strain these limits, verging upon the terrain of the young Carracci (of whom Agostino was among his pupils): a vision liberated in part by Passarotti's own inventions, and thus freer from traditional constraints than his, could turn some of the things he had implied into more radical, artistically novel facts. Passarotti had the early advantage of an education that removed him from Bologna, apparently for about fifteen years: probably on the invitation of the architect Vignola, he had gone to Rome and there become a pupil of Taddeo Zuccaro. He worked in Rome from about 1551 nearly to 1565, gaining reputation chiefly as a portraitist, a field in which he would work all through his career with much distinction."
– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti Sheet of studies ca. 1560-70 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti Four studies of hands ca. 1560-90 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti Studies of feet (recto) before 1592 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti Studies of feet (verso) before 1592 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti The Flagellation before 1592 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti Standing figure from the back before 1592 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti Anatomical study of arm and shoulder ca. 1570 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti retouched later by Peter Paul Rubens Two studies of an outstretched right arm Passarotti (red chalk) before 1592, Rubens (red wash) before 1640 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |