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Unfinished business
Just a martyr girl gang
It's taxidermatological
Savvy politician and ladies' man
Death's photographer
Provocative painter, all-around survivor
Hypebeast or hipster?
Rich diplomat/artist, loved fleshy girls, married a 16 year old when he was 53
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Where's that dam photo?
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Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Life in the commune
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
The patron saint of orgasms
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Badass portrait painter
Balling all over the world
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Buy now on Taschen
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
A long-forgotten treasure from Baroque’s leading lady
Original pieces from 942 can still be seen
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
I'm here for my mud wrap and mani/pedi
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
growing up fast
Matthew 19:21
George, George, George of the Dragon
Last of the lead white
X marx the spot
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
When you're the god of wine you get to drink from a huge glass
Brains and beauty
The First Date
Paul was a bit of a horndog
A really, really bad trip
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Sister martyr
Stood her ground til the gruesome end
Hunka hunka burnin' love
Got milk?
A healthy dose of Catholic guilt
But wait... there’s more!
Slumped from stigmata
Sh*t’s Escalating...
Monet paints choo choo trains
Should've paid the ransom!
His brother's keeper
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Eat first, sex later
Delete the bits about rape and incest, and this could be a story out of Harry Potter
Can "Jacked Renaissance Babies" become a thing?
Three graces are better than one
Listen to your girlfriend. Especially if she's magic.
It came back positive
Queen got your tongue?
A Rubens sandwich of babies and anti-war sentiment
Stick it to The Man
And they say snacking after dinner is sinful
Always wear your seat belt
A literal hellscape
Conveniently peaceful portrait
A little to the left, no, to the right
"You're tearing me apart!"
T for Tony
Perks of being a tax collector
Aim for the heart
a sweet escape
Cleaning dramaaa
There’s no “i” in team
Not my idea of ecstasy
Baby before the Baptist
Not quite Game of Thrones
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Shoot first, ask questions later
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
When men were muscley, women were soft, and there were only four continents
Snack time
And that is how we got the constellation Gemini
Cloned but not forgotten
Rubens' fighting fleshlight
Baby Herc nips the nip
When the punishment doesn't fit the crime
Heyyy
Balling with Garfield
I’m riding that hippo first!
The ineffective president
The bachelor president
So this is why they call them blueprints
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Freud’s favorite painting
Boobs held high
#MeToo circa 1600
Cézanne's remix
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Cross-Dresser Extraordinaire
Apparently there's no food chain in heaven
Accidental POTUS
Genoa's fanciest
Always the centaur of attention
Painting the patron
Paint me in too, old buddy
Twenty-seven, Balling
Stalwart no more
More like Honest Babe
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Beauty is the brains
Saint Selfie
Do the locomotion with me
A psalm of blood and milk
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Familial murder and godly revenge
A great painter's quest away from painting
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
If ya can't sell it, break it
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Highly disturbing
A star is born
The Earl goes bankrupt on art
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
Don't call it a comeback
When Doves Cry
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
It's not witchcraft, it's pussy power!
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Last known painting of Manet's favorite model
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Not bad for a kid who lived in a bubble
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
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,...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Two-faced! But not how you think
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
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...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
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...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
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”...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
