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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
The world's newest most expensive painting
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Bandits, volcanoes, and witches, oh my!
Suffered from ADD; good at starting, not finishing. Got caught in a gay foursome
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
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Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Not your everyday farm story
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Witch’s brew
Witch orgy prep
Click here for love potion recipe
Avada Kedavra
Made in a cabin
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Wearing a vest of many colors
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
I'mma let you finish, but. . .
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Tom Hanks struggled with this one
Picasso was accused of stealing it, and Napoleon hung it in his bedroom
This is how you treat a side chick. Give her a Leonardo
Part two of two!
This story is juicy
Part one of two!
Unfinished as usual
“Madonna and the Bobble Head”
Even Jesus was obsessed with his plants
Where my Doges at?
That's one heavy helmet Oof
Rebirth, Re-use, Recycle
Just another naked lady
Witness her
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Turn that frown upside down
Cleaning dramaaa
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Freud’s favorite painting
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
BFF's til the end
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Careful, might make you howl!
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
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...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
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...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
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...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
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...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
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,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
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...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
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...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
