Sartle requires JavaScript to be enabled in order for you to enjoy its full functionality and user-experience.You can find info on how to enable JavaScript for your browser here.
The evolution of infatuation
Special delivery
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Buy now on Amazon
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Provocative painter, all-around survivor
made the royals pretty
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Tough friend' yet romantic
Loved a storm
Not your general idiot
Scoffed at the nouveau riche, had a soft spot for wayward kids and pugs
Slow your roll
Popular amongst those who frequent Renaissance Faires.
Hawaiian love story
Cooler than Lancelot
Hated Picasso
Precocious
Not a Raphael fan
Less than almost famous
Eternally honored at Madame Tussaud’s
Yes We Ashcan
I hear dead people
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Hated the Eiffel Tower
A pre-Dukehood portrait
Just another beheading. Yawn
Ambitious and driven or greedy?
The end of the "holy" Roman empire
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Man vs. Nature
Apple, dearie?
playas gonna play
Damn it Susan, let me get my pants on ok
Drinks before dinner?
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...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Where will you be when the plague hits?
Sir Talks-a-lot
Ahoy, Cap'n!
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
Not just for Adam and Eve
Stairway to heaven
Maybe this will work
You've caught my soul!
For those flea-furry fetish fantasies
Take a gander at this vice
It's not what you think
Seeing red
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Proving since 1965 that drugs can make anything fun!
Colossally romantic
Hogarth was all about that pug life
Looks painful
Born from some bloody balls
P-p-p-poker Face, P-p-p-poker Face
Freud was involved
When his morals just don't measure up
Witch, please
yet another suicidal pre-raphaelite maiden
Has nothing to do with onions
That moment when you realize adultery is bad
Self love taken too far
These dresses aren't hiding anything
The face of romance
Oh so romantic
This is the last one, I promise. *gunshot*
Important information for Americans!
A Heartbreaking Work of Academic Genius
Little pig's tail
Hard cider is good
He should have used my violin
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Like a real-life Hidalgo!
Tom comes into some money and ditches his girl
Sunlight and cash both flow on Tom's morning routine
Not just Tom's spirits are lifted at the brothel
Who'll be there to bail you out?
We ain't saying he's a gold digger...but Hogarth is
Pretty rough punishment for debt
And we thought hanging chads were bad
Women and children first
A Wiley by any other name would be just as mind blowing
Etch a sketch
The Presidency got kinky
It's called acting
Cut him off!
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The political circus indeed
Seems like everyone's got a hand in the pot
This town is out of control
Build a bridge and get over it
Don't be such a nut
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Can’t touch this
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Three guys walk into a bar...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
A tender moment before mass murder
Highly disturbing
Marriage gone wrong
Stank face
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
An unfortunate moral dilemma…
An innocent red dot
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
He's wicked...wicked hot
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Rembrandt of the video age
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
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...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
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,...
So get ready!
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
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...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
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...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
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,...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
