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Sister, Sister: Bible Edition
Jesus is in the kitchen?!
Lost and found
Like Wonder Woman but different
Also happens to be the Duke of Wellington's house
If these walls could talk
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Phantasmal Fido
Extraordinary People in Such Ordinary Circumstances
Movies would have you believe he could pierce the hell out of an ear
The official residence of POTUS
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Pretend you're in a Jane Austen novel
Former tobacco plantation
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene...not
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Stockbroker's daughter who wowed Degas
Extreme performance artist
The unmentioned pre-Raphaelite sister
Girl Boss
Not suitable for children
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Buy now on Taschen
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Bad beezy
All the single ladies, all the single ladies
First first lady
Modern dance mama
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Hold that pose
Poor Jesus
It really ties the room together
No vacancy at Bates Motel
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’...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Just taking a nap
Jesus got jaundice
Giant Swastika on the back
Who caught Vermeer in the act?
Got milk?
Sew talented
Keep out
This is where the sunflowers got painted
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
The Bowery, before it had a Whole Foods.
Who are the jabronis blocking J.C.?
Bye, Felicia
Rembrandt’s only seascape is one of the most famous stolen paintings yet to be found
One of many Pietas
Now you see me...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
A little date-rapey for our taste
Before Google Maps, there was Vermeer
How long do I have to hold this pose?
Hitler's jam
Stolen for the nicest reasons
A lady with an intellectual life... shocking!
No teardrops on this guitar
All about the yellow jacket
Sleepin' on the job
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
See and be seen
Clean babies are patriotic!
Pinky out for tea
Get your hair done
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Calling folks out
Back in the manger
Getting ready to jam
Scarlett Johansson reallllly liked getting her ear pierced
Ssshhhhh…be vewy vewy quiet, I’m weighing my gold!
Girl, your calluses are out of control!
She's so not into you
Prostitute or Prosti-Cute?
Girl with a pearl earring's lesser known cousin
Also a Girl with a Pearl Earring. But not that one
Serious hat envy
Here comes “Wonderwall”
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Barely made it through World War II with the help of some sandbags
Michael Jackson style mothering on a boat!
Creepy child stare
Mary's favorite subject
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
"Thanks, I hate it"
Modernism joins the circus
Sweet baby Jesus
The doctor is in
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
Choosing cute boys over Jesus, everyday
All that glitters sometimes actually is gold
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Can we get some privacy, please
Searching for the trace of a trace
Lyrical ablutions
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Swimming pool. drank
Sacred moment made earthly and intimate
Jesus has had enough!
A psalm of blood and milk
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Crack that whip
Someone needs a first amendment refresher
The other Mary
Get a clue
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
A mystery lady
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Gone are the good, old days of steamy letters
Couldn't have been a grocery list
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
OUCH
This woman don’t need no man
Mary's big bro
Wait 'til you get a load of this guy
Oh my Goddesses
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Girl crush
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
Is...that how you do it?
Frenemies
Total poser
The past is female
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Before things got ugly life was very good
From portraitist to executioner?
Watch now
Mo money, mo problems
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Don't call it a comeback
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
After 200 years we have the truth
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Four feet of pure wildfire
Born into a lucky time
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
A holy foot rub
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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”...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Sicker than your average grandma
Too cool for New Zealand
Once Punched a Skeleton
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Famous for wearing men's clothes, smoking cigarettes, and generally NGAF
The ultimate cool beat chick
One wild and sexy lady
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
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...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Close friend of Manet's, even though he took it upon himself to "fix up" one of her paintings
Has a disease named after him
Just as good as her hubby, if not better!
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Explore 300 acres of parkland
Treasures around every corner
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
