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| Leonardo da Vinci Drapery Study - Kneeling Figure ca. 1473-77 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Leonardo da Vinci Drapery Study - Seated Figure ca. 1475-82 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Leonardo da Vinci Drapery Study - Kneeling Figure ca. 1473-77 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Leonardo da Vinci Drapery Study - Standing Figure ca. 1475-82 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Andrea del Verrocchio Drapery Study - Standing Figure ca. 1465-75 gouache on linen, mounted on paper Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Raphael Half-Length Study of Draped Man ca. 1520 drawing (study for painted Transfiguration) Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino Study of Two Draped Men ca. 1522-23 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Berto di Giovanni Drapery Study for Virgin and Child before 1529 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| attributed to Giulio Romano Standing Draped Woman after the Antique before 1546 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Bernardino Gatti Study of Draped Man ca. 1549-52 drawing (study for fresco) Musée du Louvre |
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| Bernardino Gatti Sheet of Figure and Drapery Studies ca. 1540 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Baccio Bandinelli Drapery Study after the Antique before 1560 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anthonie Blocklandt Drapery Studies for Two Apostles ca. 1579 drawing (study for painted Assumption) Musée du Louvre |
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| Ferraù Fenzoni Half-Length Study of Draped Youth (studio garzone as model) ca. 1590 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Pieter de Witte (Pietro Candido) Drapery Study for Virgin Annunciate 1595 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Pietro Faccini Two Studies of Draped Female Figures ca. 1590-1600 drawing Musée du Louvre |
"Though Nature be the Rule, yet Art has the Priviledge of Perfecting it; for you must know that there are few Objects made naturally so entirely Beautiful as they might be, no one Man or Woman possesses all the Advantages of Feature, Proportion and Colour due to each Sence. Therefore the Antients, when they had any Great Work to do, upon which they would Value themselves, did use to take several of the Beautifullest Objects they designed to Paint, and out of each of them, Draw what was most Perfect to make up One exquisite Figure."
– William Aglionby, from Painting Illustrated in Three Dialogues (1685)