preparatory

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By placing them side by side with his preparatory drawings, visitors can better understand Raphael's creative process.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

He said the parties discussed, for the first time, the possibility of a trilateral meeting between leaders, not simply representatives, but cautioned that "preparatory elements are needed for this".

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

And rather than making use of preparatory sketches, Titian painted alla prima—going straight to work on the blank surface.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Renoir stopped making preparatory studies between 1865 and 1875 when, like his Impressionist colleagues Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro, he worked directly from the motif, without preliminaries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

After the two weeks, we appeared for our preparatory examination on December 19 at the Drill Hall in Johannesburg, a military structure not normally used as a court of justice.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela