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Someone needs a first amendment refresher
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Stockbroker's daughter who wowed Degas
Extreme performance artist
The unmentioned pre-Raphaelite sister
Girl Boss
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
A magic wardrobe of sorts...
Not suitable for children
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Searching for the trace of a trace
Sweet baby Jesus
Bad beezy
All the single ladies, all the single ladies
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Not so Virgin Mary
Touched for the very first time
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
Not my Madonna
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Getting ready to jam
Part two of two!
Part one of two!
Got milk?
Baby Jesus finally looks his age
A little old baby
Isle of Man coin
When in Rome
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
See and be seen
Clean babies are patriotic!
Pinky out for tea
Get your hair done
Lots of perks to being a vestal virgin, but also some risks
Sweet baby Jesus, it looks real
There’s no “i” in team
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
Barely made it through World War II with the help of some sandbags
Michael Jackson style mothering on a boat!
Creepy child stare
Mary's favorite subject
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
"Thanks, I hate it"
Modernism joins the circus
Lost and found
The doctor is in
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Freud’s favorite painting
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Beauty is the brains
Saint Selfie
A psalm of blood and milk
Crack that whip
The other Mary
Get a clue
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
A mystery lady
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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Unfinished business
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
OUCH
This woman don’t need no man
Mary's big bro
Sister, Sister: Bible Edition
Jesus is in the kitchen?!
Wait 'til you get a load of this guy
Oh my Goddesses
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Deep, dark humor
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Girl crush
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
Is...that how you do it?
Frenemies
Total poser
The past is female
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Before things got ugly life was very good
From portraitist to executioner?
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Mo money, mo problems
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Don't call it a comeback
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
After 200 years we have the truth
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
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...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
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,...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Four feet of pure wildfire
Born into a lucky time
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Sicker than your average grandma
Too cool for New Zealand
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
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...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Famous for wearing men's clothes, smoking cigarettes, and generally NGAF
The ultimate cool beat chick
One wild and sexy lady
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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.
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Close friend of Manet's, even though he took it upon himself to "fix up" one of her paintings
Has a disease named after him
Just as good as her hubby, if not better!
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
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...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
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...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
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...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
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...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
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...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
