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Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
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Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
The lighting isn't doing him any favors
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
I am talented and successful
We love a hat moment
Wiiiiild wiiilllld horsesss (and scary hyenas)
Rembrandt’s first selfie on panel
Beyond Gauguin & evil
This little painting went “wee wee wee...”
Finally, a female gaze
Portrait-ception
Frida loved Trostky. Stalin killed Trosky. Frida loved Stalin. Wait, what!?!?
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
We're suckers for a guy in a suit
Monkeys are the new roses
Because screw your cultural norms
BDSM much?
The Mad Masker
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Snoozefest
Not accurate
Keep your budget tight and your circles tighter
Adolescent Metalpoint Master
Magic mirror on the wall
Let it all hang out
A lot of self-reflection happens at the insane asylum
Breakups will make us do crazy things
What filter is that?
Pet Goals
It’s the circle of life and politics
Gives new meaning to the term "food porn"
Paint with all seven fingers
No more drinkie
The spirit of Caesar
That other pandemic
Frida showing off a menagerie, unibrow and 'stache
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
Socialism never looked this sexy
I feel pretty, oh so pretty
That's not what he looks like
Pre-downward spiral
What’s coal got to do with it?
#MeToo circa 1600
“Hey, quit breathing down my neck!”
Selfie with a Straw Hat
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Family portrait time!
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Demons never looked so sexy
Marilyn Morimura
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Shades of Black
Late Bloomers Rejoice
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Before they hated each other's guts
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Great Scott!
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Pray the air conditioning holds out
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
OUCH
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Not everyone's photogenic
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
The Pope who partied
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Stolen, found, but not returned
Big-time First Lady
Mother in law
Olympia who?
You’ll never think of “drip painting” the same way again
Not to be confused with N'awlins
Wrapped in red
The original King of Cool
Portraits of Belleville
To the Earl goes the spoils
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Gothic tipi?
Milk and cookies cause huge controversy
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Not pregnant, just well dressed
Manet's BFF
Jack of all trades
She was a trendsetter
Umbrella collector
Big henry
thump-thump thump-thump
This story is juicy
Sexy kinda
The Sun King
Flashing all that bling bling
Surprise face!
Rescued by sled dogs
Drama drama drama
That's one melancholic Madame
Want to see a pic of Marsden’s crush?
She hated Frida Kahlo
Poor unfortunate simonetta
Kahlo family Christmas card
Fine, you can paint my portrait, but you have to include my dog
Horse Girl finds her Dream Man
The face of romance
Destroyer of dragons
“He’s a good kid”
Anything for the king
Son of a brewer, owned by an inside man
Child super-genius
A singular achievement
Geniuses, niece and auntie
A mystery lady
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Hatscarves rule
Lots of perks to being a vestal virgin, but also some risks
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
Cruella O'Keeffe
I like it when you call me big poppa
Was it all a dream?
More than just a teacher’s pet.
Boss lady
Now that's a resting bitch face
Rocking the five-head
Mary's big bro
Loneliness in the city
Delacroix’s Arab culture fetish
Atypical portrait by an atypical artist
Neckties, pianos, and outcasts
Wholesome bro
My best hat yet
LL, is that you?
Our little weakness...
Bully!
Some More Drama
Goin' to the chapel, gonna get married
We don't know much…
First off, that is a really unfortunate name
Came with a letter of explanation
Used to patch a chicken coop
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
It all ended badly for Charles
It's good to be bad
Pretty, fat, and on the fast track
Troublemaker!
The sweetest of portraits
Accidental POTUS
Actually, she likes this portrait
Wearing a vest of many colors
Family portrait Kahlo-style
Who is she?
Stylish long before Gossip Girl
Fangirl-ing
de Los Cachuchas
Meddlesome Millie
More like Honest Babe
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Countess, confidante, and tester of men
It's hard to be pithy about statecraft and malaria
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
Roses really smell like...
Bow down
When a portrait isn't a portrait
Poor Sun Elk
Not your average portraiture
If at first you don’t succeed...
A pre-Dukehood portrait
A bargain at twice the price
Amsterdam gothic
It’s a rich man’s world
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Friend of the fam
(You Drive Me) Crazy
Study up!
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Sister sister
Highly disturbing
Sexy and I know it
“No one will even see it…”
Stank face
Hear ye, hear ye! Spotless virgin paints queen consort!
Long names and titles
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Just another beheading. Yawn
Can't hide a prostitute
Not at all like Greys Anatomy
Don't call it a comeback
A burn too sick for the ER
French portrait inception
I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Obsessed with calligraphy
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
I can’t believe it’s not Peale
The abnormally happy couple
These women rock
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
