June 2026
Trois Crayons Magazine, June 2026
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Is it a Bronzino? with Bruce Edelstein
The confluence of connoisseurship and AI has been a hot topic in the art world for several years now, and this episode from Is It? The Art Mystery Podcast demonstrates the practical potential of the two methods. Bruce Edelstein, professor and researcher based in Florence, and Alessandra Conti from Art Recognition, discuss a portrait of Eleonora de Toledo, the wife of Duke Cosimo de Medici. But is it by the Medici court painter Bronzino, or by his pupil and follower Alessandro Allori?
For Francophone readers, two new podcasts series have emerged this month that merit mention: season 5 of L’Institut national d’histoire de l’art’s (INHA) podcast, La recherche à l’œuvre, the first episode of which features Turner Edwards; and Sur la route du Grand Tour : un voyage en Italie au 18e siècle, written by Antoine Chatelain.
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Neoclassical Drawings—What’s Old is New Again
What is Neoclassicism, and what does a Neoclassical drawing look like? In January 2025, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, a leading expert in the field of French drawings, gave a lecture at the The Art Institute of Chicago documenting the movement’s roots. In the lecture, Graselli references drawings from the museum's exhibition, Revolution to Restoration: French Drawingsfrom the Horvitz Collection, charting the origins and characteristics of the “new classical” style that dominated Europe, especially France, in the late-18th century.
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Can You Tell Right from Wrong in These Drawings?
Stephanie Schrader, curator of the Getty Museum’s ongoing exhibition Virtue and Vice: Allegory in European Drawing, explores how European artists from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries used art as a vehicle for moral instruction using examples by Dutch and Flemish artists, Saftleven, Jordaens, Ketel, and De Gheyn. Drawing on biblical, mythological, historical, and everyday subjects, these artists created allegories that encouraged virtuous behaviour and warned against vice. Their preparatory drawings reveal the creative process behind these moralising images and the visual clues used to communicate their messages.
