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| Luca Cambiaso Scipione and King Syphax ca. 1570 drawing British Museum |
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| Luca Cambiaso Christ nailed to the Cross before 1585 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Luca Cambiaso Conversion of St Paul before 1585 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
"But Cambiaso is important not for what he may seem to anticipate of the Seicento but for his connexion with the Mannerism that is peculiar to his own time. The final confirmation of this may be in the peculiar drawing style he invented, sometimes referred to as 'cubistic', where geometrical abstraction of anatomy is carried to an extreme for the sixteenth century, in a spirit that is intellectual and capricious. These drawings (which began to appear perhaps as early as about 1565) are the freest, sometimes brilliantly bizarre expression of Luca's private fantasy."
– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)
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| Luca Cambiaso Christ led over a Bridge by Soldiers before 1585 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Luca Cambiaso Martyrdom of St Lawrence before 1585 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Luca Cambiaso Standing Sibyl with Book before 1585 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Luca Cambiaso Combat of Nude Men before 1585 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Luca Cambiaso Study for a Spandrel Figure before 1585 drawing Harvard University Art Museums |
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| Luca Cambiaso The Visitation ca. 1580 drawing Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Luca Cambiaso Mythological Scene ca. 1550-60 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Luca Cambiaso Nymph and Putti riding on a Dolphin before 1585 drawing Harvard University Art Museums |
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| Luca Cambiaso Prince on Horseback with his Retinue before 1585 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Luca Cambiaso Lamentation ca. 1545-50 drawing Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Luca Cambiaso Youthful Bacchus before 1585 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Luca Cambiaso Volute with Harpie before 1585 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |