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Original pieces from 942 can still be seen
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
If you were catholic and rich in the 1600's you wanted to join this club and give them art
Go at your own risk
Germans "borrowed" it, Russians "saved" it
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Check your home security system people
Buy now on Amazon
Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
Pass the popcorn
New York art world subterfuge
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Life in the commune
Everybody loves a celebration!
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
The patron saint of orgasms
It's not a vagina!
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Vive La Revolution!
Warning: this painting may cause extreme déjà vu
No relation to the steak
A long-forgotten treasure from Baroque’s leading lady
Unfinished business
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
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
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
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
"Hyperreal"
T for Tony
Perks of being a tax collector
Aim for the heart
Just a martyr girl gang
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
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Beauty is the brains
Saint Selfie
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
Do the locomotion with me
A psalm of blood and milk
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
If ya can't sell it, break it
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
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...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Last known painting of Manet's favorite model
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
So get ready!
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
