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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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Tom Hanks struggled with this one
Picasso was accused of stealing it, and Napoleon hung it in his bedroom
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
Rebirth, Re-use, Recycle
Turn that frown upside down
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Freud’s favorite painting
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We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
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Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
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It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
“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?...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Careful, might make you howl!
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
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July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Criticizing the critics
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
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Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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An atheist makes a chapel where you’re NOT allowed to pray
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
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Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
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Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
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PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
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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...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
