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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
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Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
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Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
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Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
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You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
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Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
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Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
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We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
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Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
I had a hearty laugh watching Toy Story some 20 years later and finally getting...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
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My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
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One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
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Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
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Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
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Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
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The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
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Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
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Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
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“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
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Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
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October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
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In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
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Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
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Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
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Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
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February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
