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| Domenico Campagnola Landscape with Houses and Ruins before 1564 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini Youth stepping forward with a Gesture of Surprise before 1591 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Aurelio Luini Two Seated Prophets before 1593 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| attributed to Giovan Paolo Lomazzo Girl mounting Steps to an Altar and opening a Reliquary (background with view in plunging perspective toward another distant altar) before 1600 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
"The fundamental relationship of architecturally channeled vision to the whole matter of liturgical practice is most simply demonstrated by the historical evidence pertaining to a nearly universal phenomenon: the right-angle framed and unilateral focus inherent to Catholic ritual. Most commonly, this visual-devotional, unilateral focal principle, Host worship, found itself physically expressed in wholly architectural terms. Specifically it did so by the geometrically aligned and plunging "perspective patterns" naturally arising out of the longitudinal emphases inherent to the basilica-plan church format. This had been an essential compositional scheme characterizing ecclesiastical buildings ever since the time of Constantine the Great (reigned 306-337). From the early fourth century to our times, one's eyes (and heart) have been visually channeled towards the altar-table, the customary site of a monstrance containing the Host."
– John F. Moffitt, Painterly Perspective and Piety: Religious Uses of the Vanishing Point, from the 15th to the 18th Century (McFarland, 2014)
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| attributed to Pietro Faccini Burial of a Carthusian Saint before 1602 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Alessandro Casolani Sheet of Sketches with Kitchen Scene before 1606 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Andrea Boscoli Supper at Emmaus before 1607 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| attributed to Andrea Boscoli Presentation of the Virgin before 1607 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| attributed to Cherubino Alberti Studies of Three Seated Nudes before 1615 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Simone Cantarini Group of Figures before 1648 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Andrea Sacchi after Guido Reni Christ at Calvary (figure-study after a painting by Guido Reni) before 1661 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Anonymous Italian artist working in Rome Tomb of Taddeo Zuccaro, Santa Maria Rotonda 17th century drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giovanni Battista Gaulli Study for an altar, Santa Marta in Vaticano (now demolished) ca. 1670 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| attributed to Giovanni Battista Gaulli Design for the Tomb of a Child ca. 1670-90 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |