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(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Has a disease named after him
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Ancient architecture, delicious casserole and fabulous art
When you're unhappy and you know it don't clap your hands
Green ladies are always the nicest
Before Facebook event pages, you had to get creative
Secret lives of gay prostitutes
1,2,3 Kick!
Mr. Cool always gets invited to the party
Yvette herself thought it a "monstrosity"
Babe, I’m sorry I’m late
When will my reflection show who I am inside
This woman has attitude, an appetite, and boy can she dance!
Health care for sex workers
Those who can't do, paint
A quiet day at the brothel
Smart girls don't buy sight unseen
Imitation is the sincerest form of brown-nosing
Explosive high kicks
Sexy stocking stuffers
Spot all the artist’s besties
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Even firecrackers run out of energy eventually
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Teacher of artists
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
He married a rich model
A good man in a messed up world
Armchair tourism pays off
Save the horses!
Copying can be a legitimate career choice sometimes
Sgt. of Art
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A wandering painter
Briggsy
Click here to find God!
Where's that dam photo?
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Would rather throw spitballs than study
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Wearing a vest of many colors
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...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Loved the countryside, and died of lyme disease contracted in the countryside
Just another naked lady
Witness her
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Drawn to the dark side
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The pitfalls of trying to sell stolen art
Everybody dance now
Stalin hated it!
Before Freddy Krueger there were still things that went bump in the night
Neato nature
Guy about to invent writing: oh, you haven't heard?
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
There's no such thing as bad publicity
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Sibling rivalry
Savage fashion
Those have got to be implants
Shapes that make sculpture out of thin air
Guggenheim hooked it UP
Grab a mai-tai
Do the thing! Win the sports!
Don’t be so naive
God save the Queen!
Float like a butterfly, threads like an OG
No bra days are the best days
Big henry
Style changes to depict a living nightmare
Playing dress up
Not balloon animals
It’s, like, a metaphor, man
A tender moment
“You’re blocking my light”
Iconic... apparently
Little pig's tail
Rock the casbah!
Squares are people too
It's almost like you're there
Rebel in pantaloons
Now you see me...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Nothing like a ten-some to tempt a saint
Not from a fat chicken, just a big boned one
Didn't turn out great, as you might guess
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy
Harsher on racists than Trump
Make it green! Make it blue! Make it red!
A political pain in the ass
Taking the sun-spot in a lions’ den
Lit by divinity
Praying to have faith
So this is why they call them blueprints
The right to bear arms?
Daddy's little girl grows up
Once a good boy, always a good boy
Œdipus starts some drama
Just some good ol’ fashioned Milton fanfiction
Heavenly view
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Skating on thick ice
Rip van drinkle
Sacred moment made earthly and intimate
A bargain at twice the price
I’ll never understand humans
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...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Don't call it a comeback
All it’s missing is a cup of tea
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
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...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
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...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Artist and friend of Van Gogh and Gauguin
Puppy painter extraordinaire
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Not a nature guy
Could paint a grain elevator and make it pretty
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place 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...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
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...
