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Back in the manger
One of many Pietas
Just taking a nap
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
When ‘I told you so’ doesn’t feel so sweet
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Never married and said the very idea gave him nightmares, but loved a certain redhead.
A better title: "widow and orphan"
Begging for bad karma
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Did they have anti-histamine pills back then
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Evil villain's ideal getaway
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Hold that pose
Poor Jesus
If you had only one hand where would you put it?
Comes with complimentary Christmas song
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Made in a cabin
She sells seashells by the sea shore
Botticelli grows old and violent
Satyr? I hardly know her!
Jesus got jaundice
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Finally, a female gaze
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Light at the end of the tunnel?
Wearing a vest of many colors
Poor unfortunate simonetta
When in Rome
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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
Now you see me...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Calling folks out
Sister, Sister: Bible Edition
Jesus is in the kitchen?!
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Lots of action here
#BlackArtMatters
The other Starry Night
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
Extraordinary People in Such Ordinary Circumstances
Choosing cute boys over Jesus, everyday
All that glitters sometimes actually is gold
When it rains it pours
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Men react to the friendzone
Feeding your dogs a diet of girls who friendzone you
Miss. Manners says murder at the dinner table is rude
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Swimming pool. drank
Sacred moment made earthly and intimate
Jesus has had enough!
A psalm of blood and milk
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Bring a hankie
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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.
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
A colorful feast
A holy foot rub
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
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”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
