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Caravaggio's main rival, inventor of the caricature, got depressed and quit art
We're eating this at the BBQ
Vice and Virtue, sexier than ever
Don't mess with women or wild boars
Dead boyfriend? No problem.
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
Listen to your girlfriend. Especially if she's magic.
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
A Venus by any other name is a prostitute
Every woman's dream: be married to the god of jewelry
Cupid, you are being gross
Erotic...in a disturbing way
She sells seashells by the sea shore
Stone Age sisters doin’ it for themselves
Crime story
Napoleon's sister was a naughty girl
The Pope doesn't want you to see this booty
Venus and Cupid experiment with golden showers
Side chicks got it made
The most malicious cherub you'll ever meet
Baby, she was born this way
Context is everything
Satyr? I hardly know her!
You go, Rococo
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Eat first, sex later
Can "Jacked Renaissance Babies" become a thing?
Cupid's a latchkey kid
Another painting of Venus on break
Look, ma! No hands!
Born from some bloody balls
Not Average Hotel Art
The Devil Wears Prada meets My Girl
The land of breast milk and honey
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One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Literal love child
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
