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The article focuses on the drawings of Casa Piola in Genoa, Italy. The collections of Palazzo Bianco and Palazzo Rosso include a group of about 160 paintings and 400 drawings that comprised the fruits of two generations of the Piola family. The Piola family had dominated the scene of painting in the second half of the 17th and early 18th centuries. The two of the largest and most important paintings, the "Allegory of the Arts" and the "Family of Darius," have similar basic constructions. The working method of the family might introduce out to assume the existence of other intermediary graphic variants.