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A man of many names and many loves
You don't need to be a scholar
She's a man eater, make you work hard, make you spend hard
Age is just a number when it comes to boobs
A stylistic orgy
Don't look no no, don't touch no no
Group photo time!
Oriental harem tours with Ingres
Behind every hero is an overprotective mother
Twelve years later
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Anatomy sacrificed for beauty
Such a punchable face
The end of the "holy" Roman empire
Buy now on Amazon
BFF's til the end
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
He's not instilling fear in any pheasants
Gone too soon
He's convinced me now, that Benziger fellow
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Now the big daddy of sculpture, Rodin was originally kind of a loser
Impregnated two of his models, married one of them, painted from a wheelchair
Enjoys long walks on the beach, painting for patrons, and Italian food!
The Man, the Myth, the Cubist
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Jean du All Trades
Sadly, a member of the 27 club
Old school, but not in the cool way
Rocked the Rococo World
Rococ-oh no he didn't
Couldn't catch a break
Rococo like a hurricane
Bad boy of the academy
Bad girl kiki
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Not very smart, but had rich supportive parents
Killing me Softly
Just another lover's tryst
Two-faced! But not how you think
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Love or hate?
Deep in thought in San Francisco
A rarity: deep thought in DC
Falsely accused
All the single ladies!
Little bronze people in agony
Step right up!
You've caught my soul!
The walls are falling on all of us
Buy now on Taschen
The cult of drunkenness
Muse has Rodin by the junk
The geniuses of the Weather underground strike a blow against thought
Is she being coy or does he have bad breath?
Don't lose your junior junior
Who’s to blame for the rococo revival?
Mamaaaaaaa
Married the model
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Rag lady
More like the melon diptych, amiright?
Pretty bird
Skelly head
Swing, swingers, it's all the same
Walt Whitman was a fan
No such thing as bad publicity
Cubist dream
Back pain = youth leaving the body
Socrates gone mad
Deconstruction of the boob
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Get your towels ready it's about to go down
2 dope queens
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
I can see your halo, halo, halo
Lonely? Build your own girlfriend
Bashi-bazouk—Captain Haddock’s favorite expletive!
Game of Thrones, Season 4 Episode 8
A mystery wrapped in an enigma
“Not for sale” sells for $110.5 million
Like jazz, but a painting
Ma’am, your folds are showing
Young, dumb and in love
Shop til' Ya Drop
Bad and Boujee
The Realist in the game
Exactly the white kind of person
A big old brouhaha
A horse walks into a bar...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Sisters before mistresses
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Late night liaisons
I've been seduced alright... by that great sense of humor!
Not unraveling the moral fabric, probably
SAMO's Pharaoh
Just another pervy kid in Paris
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Italian sass with Segatori
A bloody family affair
Another nude, Gerome?
My horse needs more henna!
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub
So get ready!
Flip it and reverse it
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Quick-change artist
Souvenirs from vacation
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
The greatest sacrifice
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Ghostwood
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
French portrait inception
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
The penis is v. important in this one
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
The flower-breeding father of fashion photography
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Once Punched a Skeleton
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
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...
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...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
They didn’t tell me about Impressionism
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Responsible for the most famous vagina painting in the world
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
