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Very gay, but not happy. His dad and the pope beat him with a stick
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The OG wet t-shirt contest
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Veni, Vidi, Vino!
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Old faced baby Jesus
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Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
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Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
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The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
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Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Mammogram or mistake?
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Beware of the thieving gypsies
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Party like it’s 1639
Not your mama’s last supper
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The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
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Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Tom Hanks struggled with this one
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Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
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An unfortunate moral dilemma…
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Convicted murderer, drunk, deemed "foul and rotten", but protected by wealthy patrons
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Emasculates the German government
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The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
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Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
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Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
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Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Once Punched a Skeleton
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Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
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With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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