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Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
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Bankers and homeless people sit separately
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
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Bless your heart
Sibling rivalry
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
Real Housewives of Paris
If I could turn back ti-ime!
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
English people are snobs
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Not one for the Christmas card
Sisters before mistresses
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Fashion hunny
Must love horses
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Playtime in the bath
Family portrait time!
Sister wife
No, your kid could not have painted this
Arcimboldo's Greatest Hits
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
This one hung in Goya's dining room. Yum!
Gore, guts, and great shoes
TGIF
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Foot fetish anyone?
Girl, your calluses are out of control!
Toilette humor
The girl who just wanted a bath
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Upsetting
Men react to the friendzone
Like characters in a Henry James novel
Marie Antoinette's best friend....possibly with benefits
Special delivery
Beloved wife, sort of...
Can we get some privacy, please
Don't mess with this kid
Third time's the charm
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Couldn't have been a grocery list
The greatest sacrifice
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Countess, confidante, and tester of men
It's hard to be pithy about statecraft and malaria
Mary Poppins?
Does it make you randy baby?
Is...that how you do it?
Cultural appropriation at its finest
Taking one for the team
Live easels
A cute outfit can't save you
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Before things got ugly life was very good
Sexy stocking stuffers
“No one will even see it…”
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Before they hated each other's guts
Deep, dark humor
How times have changed...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
Freaky families
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Even firecrackers run out of energy eventually
After 200 years we have the truth
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
The sun never sets on Turner’s legacy
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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?
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
Obsessed with calligraphy
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
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...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
So get ready!
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Literally *fire*
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
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The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
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It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
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Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
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Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
