AUGUST 2026
Trois Crayons Magazine, August 2026
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Platemark Podcast: Albrecht Dürer's connections to the Islamic East with Susan Dackerman
Susan Dackerman, a specialist in Northern European print culture, joins Ann Shafer, an art historian and designer specialised in the arts of the ancient Near East and the Early Islamic world, for an episode of Platemark, the printmaking podcast. In the episode, Dackerman discusses her recent book, Dürer's Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East, and examines Dürer’srelationship with the Islamic world, revealing insights about the intersection of early modern printmaking and contemporary history.
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[Visite privée] Dessins français des collections privées françaises au musée de Picardie
Scribe Accroupi visits the Musée de Picardie’s current exhibition, Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David: French Drawings from French Private Collections, charting the art of drawing in France from the end of the Renaissance to the beginning of the Revolution. Through a series of pieces to camera from the exhibition’s co-curator, Pierre Stépanoff, the video explores many of the highlights from the 170-drawing show. For those who cannot visit Amiens before the exhibition closes on 27 September, the video provides an excellent opportunity to see these drawings – which are rarely displayed in public – in their exhibition context before they return to their owners.
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How Scientists Read the Cards: Analysis of the Visconti-Sforza Tarot Decks
Drawing on the recent examination of the Morgan Library & Museum’s Visconti-Sforza tarot cards (c. 1456–58) and Yale’s Visconti di Modrone cards (c. 1447), Lydia Aikenhead looks at the ways in which conservation scientists use material analysis to tease out new information from works on paper. Through brief interviews with the project’s scientists, the article illustrates how damage can prove “a paradise for the scientist” and how high-powered microscopic inspection exposes the delicate, layered pigments hidden beneath the surface.
