 Early drawings of the Torso were made by Amico Aspertini, c. 1500–03, by Martin van Heemskerck, c. 1532–36, by Hendrick Goltzius, c. 1590; the Belvedere Torso entered the visual repertory of connoisseurs and artists unable to go to Rome through the engraving of it by Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, c. 1515.Around 1500 it was in the possession of the sculptor Andrea Bregno.It was still in the Palazzo Colonna during the Sack of Rome in 1527, when it suffered some mutilation.