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That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Don't fear the reaper
Not so Virgin Mary
Compounding a bad situation
High drama, sex, and violence
More weirdness from Bosch
Did not survive "Snakes on a Plane"
The circle of life
A forgotten warrior
Last chance to get some before it all goes to hell!
One man's terrorist with a skin disease is another man's noble martyr
Para el Cambio
Socrates is so obnoxious he meets a macabre end
The new gang at McDonaldland
O Holy Knight
Suspicious lack of togas
Worst kiss ever
It’s my party and I’ll die if I want to
Cloned but not forgotten
Aim for the heart
She's not taking a nap
“Hey, quit breathing down my neck!”
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Put all your money on Death!
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Reading rainbow
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
He's wicked...wicked hot
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
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...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Not your average #travelspo Insta’ selfie
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,...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
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,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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
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...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
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...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
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...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
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...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
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 March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
