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| Domenico Beccafumi Head Study for the Archangel Michael ca. 1520 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Domenico Beccafumi Head of a Youth ca. 1520 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Domenico Beccafumi Head of a Youth ca. 1530-35 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Domenico Beccafumi Head of a Woman ca. 1520-30 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Domenico Beccafumi Self Portrait before 1513 drawing Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Domenico Beccafumi Portrait Study of a Woman before 1551 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Domenico Beccafumi Head of an Old Man ca. 1529-35 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| Domenico Beccafumi Head of a Young Man ca. 1529-35 oil on paper Musée du Louvre |
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| Domenico Beccafumi Flying Angel with Sword ca. 1522-24 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Domenico Beccafumi Flying Angel ca. 1522-24 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Domenico Beccafumi Angels (recto) ca. 1520 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Domenico Beccafumi Sheet of Studies (verso of Angels) ca. 1520 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Domenico Beccafumi Study for Two Putti ca. 1533-35 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Domenico Beccafumi Study for Putto ca. 1530-35 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Domenico Beccafumi Study for Ornamental Faun Figure before 1551 drawing Musée du Louvre |
"A painter, sculptor, draughtsman, illuminator and printmaker, Beccafumi was one of the outstanding representatives of Tuscan Mannerism. According to Vasari, Domenico di Giacomo di Pace, also known as Mecherino, was the son of a humble farmer from a small town near Siena. From his early youth he enjoyed the patronage of the wealthy Lorenzo Beccafumi, a protector of his father from whom the artist took his surname. This patron apparently funded the artist's training in Siena. His early works reveal the marked influence of the Florentine painters Fra Bartolommeo and Albertinelli, while he was also interested in the innovations of contemporary painters such as Filippino Lippi, Piero di Cosimo, Perugino, Signorelli and Il Sodoma. Between 1510 and 1512 Beccafumi lived in Rome where he studied the work of Raphael, Michelangelo and Baldassare Peruzzi [Cavalier d'Arpino]. Beccafumi returned to Siena, where he lived and worked for the remainder of his life."
– from curator's notes at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid