Trois Crayons Magazine, November 2026
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Art History at Bedtime with Dr Bendor Grosvenor: Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532–1625) by Raffaele Soprani
In dulcet tones, Bendor Grosvenor reads from Raffaele Soprani’s 1674 biography of Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532–1625). The translation of the original Italian is taken from Julia K. Dabbs’ Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550–1800: An Anthology (2009). Produced during the 2020 Covid lockdown, Grosvenor’s twelve-part series features readings from art historical texts by Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo and Horace Walpole.
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Marie Bracquemond’s Drawings for Modern Life (La Vie Moderne)
In 2024, the artist couple Marie and Félix Bracquemond enjoyed a major resurgence of interest following a series of auctions at Artcurial in Paris and the generous donation of nearly 200 works to the Musée d’Orsay by their descendants. In this lecture, Ashley E. Dunn, Curator of Drawings & Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, reflects on the new light these discoveries have shone on Marie’s drawing practices, and the subtle differences in her technique when preparing drawings for etchings, photomechanical reproduction, or as independent works for exhibition.
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Conservation in Focus: A Camille Pissarro Drawing by Valeria Pesce
As part of the Harvard Art Museums’ series highlighting the work of its conservation and curatorial fellows, conservation fellow Valeria Pesce describes her extensive preparation, research, and eventual treatment of Camille Pissarro’s Eclipse of the Sun, c. 1854, accompanied by interactive before, during, and after images.
