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| Monogrammist FP Virtue Triumphant over Vice 16th century engraving Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
"Italy was commonly resented, in Germany for money supposedly drained away by the demands of the papacy, and everywhere for the high level of its material culture and the lightness and immorality which its amenities supposedly encouraged. This kind of anti-Italianism found particular expression in England, where an anonymous pamphlet advertised itself as 'a Discoverie of the the great subtiltie and wonderful wisdome of the Italians, whereby they beare sway over the most part of Christendome, and cunninglie behave themselves to fetch the Quintescence out of the peoples purses.'"
- from The Waning of the Renaissance 1550-1640 / William J. Bouwsma (Yale University Press, 2000)
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| Giuseppe Arcimboldo Figure in Niche 1564-65 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Marcantonio Raimondi Ancient statue at the Vatican of recumbent Cleopatra 16th century engraving Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Marcantonio Raimondi Apollo Belvedere ca. 1510-27 engraving Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Agostino dei Musi Infant Hercules strangling serpents 1533 engraving Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Agostino dei Musi Iphigenia about to sacrifice Orestes and Pylades early 16th century engraving Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Enea Vico Leda and Swan 1542 engraving Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Giulio Bonasone Circe and the Companions of Ulysses 1530s engraving Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Anonymous print-maker after Giulio Romano Personification of Victory ca. 1563-65 engraving Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Giacomo Francia Bacchus & Attendants 16th century engraving Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Denys Calvaert after Michelangelo Figure study from The Last Judgment 1574 drawing British Museum |
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| Alessandro Allori Youth bending and lifting ca. 1600 drawing British Museum |
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| Alessandro Allori Youth with sheaf of corn ca. 1600 drawing British Museum |
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| circle of Alessandro Allori Diana and sleeping Endymion ca. 1600 drawing British Museum |