Explore: Artists' Preparatory Studies

rough draft of a proposed work. Drawings may also be preparatory for sculptural work. Preparatory studies may be compositional, representing the entire proposed

all or part of the body of a very young child, considered to be preparatory studies for the Infant Jesus in the oil painting The Virgin and Child with

thought processes and techniques of many artists. Studies Leonardo da Vinci's study of embryos, c. 1510-1513 Studies by Abraham Bloemaert, ca. 1626 Head of

local man as model. A preparatory drawing exists in the Albertina of Vienna with an annotation of the man's age (93). The artist donated the painting to

carved wax studies of the nymph, her head, Rush's head, the nude model, and the other Rush sculptures depicted. Five of the six wax studies survive, in

creating his own Christ in the Garden of Olives; two proximal Last Supper studies (Interior of a Restaurant in Arles and Interior of the Restaurant Carrel

school friend Vincent van Gogh. The work was preceded by several preparatory studies followed by a drawing in ink and chalk that was later published in

belongs to a series of preparatory studies probably made between 1502 and 1503, when the painting was conceived. Two of these studies focus on specific parts

template Infobox school is being considered for merging. › The College Preparatory School (CPS or College Prep) is a four-year private non-residential high

academic studies. This led some colleges to establish their own high schools, organized as preparatory departments of the college. The Preparatory Department