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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Ceramic sex toys are a thing with her
Surprise, sexism in the Victorian era
Horse on a treadmill
A burn too sick for the ER
Escaped the guillotine, unlike her friend Marie
Ex-nun, harassed for painting without a license, official painter of Marie Antoinette
Lange is holding a camera! Really!
An obvious wrong
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
An egotistical maniac, or my new boo?
Waiting for the white angel
Hungry
That sass though
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Taxes too high? Naked horse ride, baby.
Lil' Bee Bee sees right through ya
Ain't that a kick?
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Goin' to the chapel, gonna get married
Are you sure that’s all you’re selling?
Only men can see this one
She used a good filter
Queen of masques unmasked
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Who is she?
Now that's a resting bitch face
There’s no “i” in team
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
When you look good, we look good (and we get paid)
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
Live easels
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Nightmares of Rococo
Freud’s favorite painting
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Before things got ugly life was very good
Voted most popular, class of 1795
Long names and titles
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Gay as a moonbeam
Taking one for the team
We want the Funk
Alexa, play “Levitating” by Dua Lipa
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Before they hated each other's guts
French portrait inception
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
From portraitist to executioner?
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Marie Antoinette's best friend....possibly with benefits
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The penis is v. important in this one
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
There's no one quite like her
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Born into a lucky time
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Careful, might make you howl!
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Say my name, say my name
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
