bozzetto

It was in the context of this development that the painter's sketch as well as the sculptor's sketchy clay model (bozzetto) were conceded the status of works of art in their own right.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas RUDOLF WITTKOWER 1968

The appreciation of individual manner and style in the drawing, the sketch, and the bozzetto — first savored by the eight - eenth-century virtuoso — cannot, of course, be sepa - rated from the recognition of genius emerging at the same time.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas RUDOLF WITTKOWER 1968

It has occurred to me that I might go as a rough sketch -- a _bozzetto_ -- of a gentleman. "

Under the Skylights Henry Blake Fuller 1893