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Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
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“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Picasso was accused of stealing it, and Napoleon hung it in his bedroom
They grow up so fast
Ladies first!
America, hell yeah!
You think you know, but you have no idea.
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Zebulon's son
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You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Not your mama's still life
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
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Dude, I feel totally sublime
Enjoy the view
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Space Fan Art
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I like big butts and I cannot lie
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Careful, might make you howl!
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
You're gunna get cut
I’d give that cannonball a 6 out of 10
Chug! Chug! Chug!
Paradise but dramatic
A smorgasbord of structures
Dinner with a view (for the eagle)
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
What makes her smile?
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Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Think twice before your next wax
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Old school drinking game in progress
God save the Queen!
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
When a landscape artist is commissioned to paint a religious scene
Ctrl+X: “industrialism”
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
17th century drinking game anyone?
Like Mavericks, but safer
Straight outta Camden
Colossally romantic
When he ugly but he Jesus
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Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
SAMO's Pharaoh
Go ahead and take a peek
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Give 'em the ol' razzle dazzle
Viagra was the duke's only wish
"Sleep"
Rags-to-riches before it was cool
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Man of many hats
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With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
A violent piece of history
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...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Decent navigator, bad salesman
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
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San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
The Ambassador Quintet
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Float like a butterfly, sting like Aeneas
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
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When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
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The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
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In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
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Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
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Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
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The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
