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| Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano) Noli me tangere before 1638 oil on canvas Chiesa di San Francesco, Lucca |
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| Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano) Noli me tangere (detail) before 1638 oil on canvas Chiesa di San Francesco, Lucca |
"It has already been indicated that the role of Florence in the history of Seicento painting is disappointingly but not unexpectedly limited. Not a single artist of great stature was produced there at this period. To a greater or lesser extent Florentines remained tied to their tradition of draughtsmanship, and their attempts to adjust themselves to the use of North Italian colour were more often than not halfhearted and inconsistent. Furthermore, neither the emotionalism of Federico Barocci nor the drama and impetuosity of Giovanni Lanfranco and the young Guercino were suitable to Tuscan doctrine and temperament. Bernardino Poccetti's sober and measured narrations remained the accepted style, and artists like Domenico Cresti, called Passignano, were faithful to this manner far into the seventeenth century. Passignano did, however, make concessions to Venetian colour, and his pictures tend to show a richer and warmer palette than those of his contemporaries."
– Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, originally published in 1958, revised by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu and reissued by Yale University Press in 1999
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| attributed to Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano) Procession of Figures before 1638 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano) Drapery Study before 1638 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano) Taking of Christ before 1638 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| attributed to Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano) Baptism of Christ before 1638 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| attributed to Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano) Three Women and a Child in a Dramatic Scene before 1638 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| attributed to Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano) Triumphal Entry of a Woman into a City before 1638 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano) Queen receiving a Martyr's Palm from an Angel holding a Banner before 1638 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano) Attempted Martyrdom of St Catherine before 1638 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| attributed to Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano) Virgin and Child enthroned with Saints before 1638 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| attributed to Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano) St Lawrence with Martyr's Palm surrounded by Six Saints before 1638 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano) Christ healing the Paralytic before 1638 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano) The Virgin contemplating Instruments of the Passion before 1638 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| follower of Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano) Study for Massacre of the Innocents before 1638 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |