Sentence examples for Preparatory drawing from inspiring English sources

He has never been in the habit of preparatory drawing.

The Notre-Dame painting, The Death of the Virgin (1623), went missing following the French Revolution and was known until the 21st century only by a preparatory drawing.

For his most elaborate free-standing composition, "The Resurrection," an altarpiece seething with figures, Bronzino drew a large preparatory drawing in gray and brown washes with white highlights.

The works of interest here — there aren't many — include Picasso's expressive sketch of his sister Lola and a preparatory drawing for Degas's gloomy group portrait "The Bellelli Family".

That attribution was accepted until 1968, when Detlef Heikamp, an art historian who specialized in 16th-century Italian art, identified it as a preparatory drawing for the tapestry "Justice Liberating Innocence," which belongs to the Pitti Palace in Florence.

In a 1749 preparatory drawing for the "Carceri d'Invenzione," staircases lead to nowhere amid an infinite maze of chambers under sweeping arches, evoking the scary, unexplored recesses of the mind.

This created new needs and higher standards for preparatory drawings, which in turn stimulated diverse drawing techniques and styles.

I drew less and less on paper – I usually worked directly onto the pots, with no preparatory drawings at all.

There were no preparatory drawings.

In addition to the three major works, the show includes 16 finely drawn preparatory studies for "Cedar Bar".

The perfection of his paintings was achieved through extensive and beautiful preparatory studies, as indicated by his drawing retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1987.