These drawings were attributed to Domenico Beccafumi, possibly by the dealer when they came into Avery's collection. Myra Rosenfeld included the drawings in a 1975 exhibition at Columbia University's Low Library on Sebastiano Serlio. In the exhibition catalogue, Rosefeld writes that "the series of drawings by the Sienese painter Domenico Beccafumi in the Avery Library may be copies of a lost architectural treatise by Peruzzi which was described by Vasari," (Rosenfeld, Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1555): an exhibition in honor of the five hundredth anniversary of his birth, page 2) and dates the drawings as circa 1512. The Avery Library catalogue entry for these drawings from 1976 notes that the drawings are similar to woodcuts published in Serlio's Regole generali di architectura (Venice, 1537). A letter by James Ackerman from 1982 kept with the drawings questions the attribution to Beccafumi as well as the 1512 date. In Myra Rosenfeld's preface to her 1996 publication, Serlio On Domestic Architecture (New York: Dover Publications), she notes that Lionello Puppi posits that these drawings are by Francesco Sanese, one of Baldassare Peruzzi's helpers. Serlio was an assistant in Peruzzi's workshop in Rome between 1515 and 1520 (See Rosenfeld, Serlio On Domestic Architecture, page 2).