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Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
A gift to the Nation
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Who run the world? Girls!
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
One museum, two museum, three museum, floor
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The real deal
Modern Indian masters
Come and say g'day
Founded in 1880 by the 7th Duke of Argyle (after whose family's lands argyle socks are named)
They're keeping the name
Purchased a Rembrandt for £20
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Used to be a palace, v. chic
A good swattin’
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Island in the Plains
Aye laddy...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Danish, anyone?
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
Careful, might make you howl!
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Great Scott!
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Doctor Who is here a lot
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Made in a cabin
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
We dont need no education
Wearing a vest of many colors
Get elevated
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
What is the meaning of life?
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Take that Uncle Sam!
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Nature is awesome
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
The penis is v. important in this one
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
Created by Sister Suffragette
Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!
Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
Cooler than an Orange Julius
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
This museum is worth A-GO
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
