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| Anonymous Dutch Artist Two Studies of a Woman wearing a Wimple ca. 1520 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Jan Cossiers Head of a Man ca. 1655-60 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Filippo Napoletano (Filippo Teodoro di Liagno) Launching of a Galleon from the Arsenal at Livorno ca. 1617-22 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| follower of Giuseppe Maria Crespi Soldier leaning Head on Hand 18th century drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Richard Cosway The Supper at Emmaus ca. 1790 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Baccio Bandinelli Sleeping Figure after the Antique before 1560 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Andrea Lilio Figures succoring St Sebastian ca. 1596 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Pier Leone Ghezzi after Raphael Head of an Angel 1724 drawing Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Gaetano Gandolfi Five Grotesque Heads ca. 1775 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Head of a Young Man in a Broad Hat ca. 1745 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Bernardino Poccetti (Barbatelli) Design for Cartouche with Medici Arms flanked by Justice and Prudence ca. 1607-1612 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Domenico Piola St Peter delivered from Prison by an Angel before 1703 drawing British Museum |
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| Jean Eric Rehn Italian Fountain ca. 1755 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Nicolas de Plattemontagne Seated Martyr ca. 1680 drawing (drapery study for painting) Morgan Library, New York |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Group of struggling Figures ca. 1750 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Boys bathing in a Canal ca. 1790-1800 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
from Piranesi's Keyhole
There is a place existing only in the mind, or minds,
Approachable through memory or art, an aesthetic counterpart
Of that imaginary world Kant called the Realm of Ends,
That answers only to the laws of its creation. It begins,
If it begins anywhere, in childhood – in a story out of Poe,
Or in a church, or in a private moment glowing with the sense,
Not so much of another life, as that this one is wanting –
Which is also where it ends.
* * *
And just as one is a creation not to be believed,
So too the soul, for what it glimpses through the aperture of art
Is Berkeley's world, existing simply as perceived,
A haven for the eye that seeks it or the vagrant self
That looks around and tries to call it home,
That celebrates the freedom of its Realm of One,
A freedom purchased at the price of unreality.
– John Koethe (2006)