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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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Tom Hanks struggled with this one
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This is how you treat a side chick. Give her a Leonardo
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This story is juicy
Part one of two!
Unfinished as usual
“Madonna and the Bobble Head”
Even Jesus was obsessed with his plants
That's one heavy helmet Oof
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Turn that frown upside down
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Damn it Susan, let me get my pants on ok
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Made in a cabin
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
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Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Inspired by Keats's grave
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
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“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?...
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Old maids reminiscing
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Wearing a vest of many colors
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Cultural appropriation at its finest
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Careful, might make you howl!
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
P-town Love
“I've been everywhere, man...”
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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Where my Doges at?
Just another naked lady
Witness her
The Milky (chocolate) Way
“Viva os catadores!"
I am NOT Whistler’s mother
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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Upsetting
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Don't ask him to make copies
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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...
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Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
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It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
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Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
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…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
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Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
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The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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