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Jesus butts in on the devil's business
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Caravaggio's main rival, inventor of the caricature, got depressed and quit art
We're eating this at the BBQ
Vice and Virtue, sexier than ever
No problem, Señor Diablo
Matthew 19:21
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Paul was a bit of a horndog
A really, really bad trip
Sh*t’s Escalating...
T for Tony
Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one
A psalm of blood and milk
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Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Buy now on Amazon
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
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Life in the commune
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Hold that pose
Poor Jesus
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
The patron saint of orgasms
Just taking a nap
Jesus got jaundice
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
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...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Too turnt
Not all temptations are equally tempting
Sexy kinda
“I am so down to earth”
A long-forgotten treasure from Baroque’s leading lady
Original pieces from 942 can still be seen
Calling folks out
Sister, Sister: Bible Edition
Back in the manger
Jesus is in the kitchen?!
Unfinished business
Nothing like a ten-some to tempt a saint
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
The Powder of Sympathy
I'm here for my mud wrap and mani/pedi
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
growing up fast
George, George, George of the Dragon
Last of the lead white
X marx the spot
Extraordinary People in Such Ordinary Circumstances
Choosing cute boys over Jesus, everyday
All that glitters sometimes actually is gold
She's pretty... too pretty
Ambassador extraordinaire
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Swimming pool. drank
Sacred moment made earthly and intimate
Jesus has had enough!
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
Monet paints choo choo trains
Should've paid the ransom!
His brother's keeper
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
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
Real housewives of 1636
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They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Freud’s favorite painting
Boobs held high
#MeToo circa 1600
Cézanne's remix
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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
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
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
These women rock
If ya can't sell it, break it
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Not bad for a kid who lived in a bubble
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
"Talent is cheap"
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
A holy foot rub
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Last known painting of Manet's favorite model
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
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We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
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Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
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Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
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When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
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Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
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Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
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Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
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No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
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The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
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Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
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Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
