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| Giovanni Battista Trotti (il Molosso) Study for Figure of David in Spandrel before 1619 drawing Groeningemuseum, Bruges |
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| Giovanni Battista Trotti (il Molosso) Drapery Study of Kneeling Supplicating Woman before 1619 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Guido Reni Study of Model for Figure of Christ in the Tomb ca. 1616 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Guercino Executioner with the Head of St John the Baptist ca. 1610 drawing Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon |
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| Guercino Two Putti ca. 1626 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Guercino St Sebastian ca. 1632-34 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Guercino Study of Seated Man before 1666 drawing private collection |
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| Elisabetta Sirani Study of Woman wearing a Turban before 1665 drawing Museo Diocesano, Milan |
"Those arts which reveal the genera or modes by which things are made, e.g. painting, sculpture, modelling and architecture, proceed with greater certainty towards the goal they have set themselves than those which do not reveal them, i.e. the conjectural arts such as oratory, politics and medicine. The former arts reveal them because they are concerned with the prototypes which the human mind contains within itself, whereas the latter do not because man does not have within himself the form of the things which are conjectured. . . . And in the imitative arts, e.g. painting, sculpture, modelling and poetry, excellence belongs to those who embellish an archetype from the realm of common nature not with common but with new and wonderful details, or who decorate an archetype which has been represented by another artist with their own superior details and make it their own."
– Giambattista Vico, On the Ancient Wisdom of the Italians taken from the Origins of the Latin Language (1710), translated from Italian by Leon Pompa (1982)
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| Giovanni Battista Passeri Anatomy Lesson 1674 drawing Accademia di San Luca, Rome |
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| Giovanni Battista Passeri Anatomy Lesson 1674 drawing Accademia di San Luca, Rome |
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| Giuseppe Nicola Nasini Abraham banishing Hagar and Ishmael ca. 1690 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Canaletto Capriccio with Ruined Classical Temple ca. 1740-50 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Pietro Antonio Novelli Pair of Telemons (Atlantes) ca. 1750 drawing private collection |
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| Jacopo Guarana Satyr reclining on a Ledge ca. 1770 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Jacopo Guarana Satyr reclining on a Ledge ca. 1770 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |