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The evolution of infatuation
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Provocative painter, all-around survivor
made the royals pretty
Tough friend' yet romantic
Loved a storm
Not your general idiot
Scoffed at the nouveau riche, had a soft spot for wayward kids and pugs
Slow your roll
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Precocious
Not a Raphael fan
Less than almost famous
Eternally honored at Madame Tussaud’s
Yes We Ashcan
I hear dead people
Popular amongst those who frequent Renaissance Faires.
Hawaiian love story
Cooler than Lancelot
Hated Picasso
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
A pre-Dukehood portrait
Hated the Eiffel Tower
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Just another beheading. Yawn
Ambitious and driven or greedy?
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The end of the "holy" Roman empire
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Man vs. Nature
Apple, dearie?
playas gonna play
Damn it Susan, let me get my pants on ok
Drinks before dinner?
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Where will you be when the plague hits?
Sir Talks-a-lot
Ahoy, Cap'n!
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
Not just for Adam and Eve
Stairway to heaven
Maybe this will work
You've caught my soul!
For those flea-furry fetish fantasies
Take a gander at this vice
It's not what you think
Seeing red
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Proving since 1965 that drugs can make anything fun!
Colossally romantic
Hogarth was all about that pug life
Looks painful
Born from some bloody balls
P-p-p-poker Face, P-p-p-poker Face
Freud was involved
When his morals just don't measure up
Witch, please
yet another suicidal pre-raphaelite maiden
Has nothing to do with onions
That moment when you realize adultery is bad
Self love taken too far
These dresses aren't hiding anything
The face of romance
Oh so romantic
This is the last one, I promise. *gunshot*
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A Heartbreaking Work of Academic Genius
Little pig's tail
Hard cider is good
He should have used my violin
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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:...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Like a real-life Hidalgo!
Tom comes into some money and ditches his girl
Sunlight and cash both flow on Tom's morning routine
Not just Tom's spirits are lifted at the brothel
Who'll be there to bail you out?
We ain't saying he's a gold digger...but Hogarth is
Pretty rough punishment for debt
And we thought hanging chads were bad
Women and children first
A Wiley by any other name would be just as mind blowing
Etch a sketch
The Presidency got kinky
It's called acting
Cut him off!
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
The political circus indeed
Seems like everyone's got a hand in the pot
This town is out of control
Build a bridge and get over it
Don't be such a nut
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Can’t touch this
Three guys walk into a bar...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
A tender moment before mass murder
Highly disturbing
Marriage gone wrong
Stank face
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
An unfortunate moral dilemma…
An innocent red dot
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
He's wicked...wicked hot
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
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...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
The Rembrandt of the video age
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
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....
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
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...
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...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
So get ready!
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...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
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...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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,...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
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...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
