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| Andrea Sacchi Académie before 1661 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Andrea Sacchi Académie before 1661 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
"Even though drawing from the nude was part of training, many established artists continued attending academies. Poussin and Maratta frequented them well beyond their youth, as did some landscape painters. Claude went to an unspecified academy out of desperation about his incompetent figure drawings; van Swanevelt went because he wanted to grace his landscapes with perfectly proportioned figures, and he felt that he needed more skill to draw a hand than to depict all the landscape background. . . . The best-documented private academy is that of Andrea Sacchi. He held an accademia del nudo in his own house in Via Rasella for many years – certainly around 1630 – and many painters took advantage of it. The model for a time was a "caporal Leone, one of the best, for the liveliness he gave to the postures in which he was posed." Thus, he was a quasi-professional model, paid for his services. . . . No drawings of female models in the nude seem to have survived from academic gatherings in Rome; . . . posing, even if clothed, was in itself disreputable for a woman, as it implied going to a painter's house and spending time in his company."
– Patrizia Cavazzini, from Painting as Business in Early Seventeenth-Century Rome (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008)
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| workshop of Andrea Sacchi Figure-study, with satyr-like characteristics ca. 1640-50 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Andrea Sacchi Study for painting of St Andrew ca. 1632-50 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Andrea Sacchi Figure-study (for vault fresco, S. Luigi dei Francesi, Rome) ca. 1653-60 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| attributed to Giovanni Baglione Académie before 1644 drawing British Museum |
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| Anonymous artist working in Rome Académie 17th century drawing British Museum |
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| Anonymous artist working in Rome Académie 17th century drawing British Museum |
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| Anonymous artist working in Rome Académie ca. 1625-1675 drawing British Museum |
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| Anonymous artist working in Rome Académie 17th century drawing British Museum |
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| Anonymous artist working in Rome Académie 17th century drawing British Museum |
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| Anonymous artist working in Rome Académie ca. 1600-1625 drawing British Museum |
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| Anonymous artist working in Rome Académie 17th century drawing British Museum |
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| Anonymous artist working in Rome Académie 17th century drawing British Museum |