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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Lady Jane
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
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Instead of a pumpkin carriage, you get TB!
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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That's Master Richard to you!
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A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
A stiff upper lip
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
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First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
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Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
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Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
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Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
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It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
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The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
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MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
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(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
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...
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Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
