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Rich diplomat/artist, loved fleshy girls, married a 16 year old when he was 53
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
When you're the god of wine you get to drink from a huge glass
The First Date
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Eat first, sex later
Delete the bits about rape and incest, and this could be a story out of Harry Potter
Can "Jacked Renaissance Babies" become a thing?
Three graces are better than one
Listen to your girlfriend. Especially if she's magic.
It came back positive
Queen got your tongue?
A Rubens sandwich of babies and anti-war sentiment
Stick it to The Man
And they say snacking after dinner is sinful
Always wear your seat belt
A literal hellscape
Conveniently peaceful portrait
A little to the left, no, to the right
"You're tearing me apart!"
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
When men were muscley, women were soft, and there were only four continents
Snack time
And that is how we got the constellation Gemini
Rubens' fighting fleshlight
Baby Herc nips the nip
When the punishment doesn't fit the crime
Just a martyr girl gang
Heyyy
I’m riding that hippo first!
Apparently there's no food chain in heaven
Genoa's fanciest
Always the centaur of attention
Painting the patron
Paint me in too, old buddy
Familial murder and godly revenge
A great painter's quest away from painting
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The Earl goes bankrupt on art
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Don't call it a comeback
When Doves Cry
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
It's taxidermatological
Savvy politician and ladies' man
Death's photographer
Provocative painter, all-around survivor
Hypebeast or hipster?
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Not a sports guy
His poop took down a power line in Berne
Britain's most hated artist
On the dot
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Where's that dam photo?
Big Daddy of it all
Wore a spiky helmet, just like Bismarck
Wanderlust for Western Canada
Boho Chic
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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Drama, drama, drama
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Possibly cut off van Gogh's ear
Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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Badass portrait painter
Balling all over the world
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
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Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Do what you're good at
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Whodunnit??
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Para el Cambio
Power of a flower
Brains and beauty
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Cezanne's bad boy phase
Between the sheets
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Stone Age sisters doin’ it for themselves
Like, Totally Rad Art Dude
An ancient dick pic
Work of hot air
Portraits of Belleville
Kim K. has nothing on Courbet
Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
See you at poker night
Have a holly jolly Christmas
Swim anyone?
Bluebird singing
To catch a predator
Phew, that was close.
Whoops He Pinned it Again
How you like them apples?
Weird science
Modern dance mama
Let's Get Ready to Rumble!
Beyond Gauguin & evil
Jesus got jaundice
Penny for her thoughts
Cavorting with prostitutes in Arles
Beheadings in the Pacific
A carnival for the kids
"Fish are friends, not food"
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Cloned but not forgotten
Balling with Garfield
The ineffective president
The bachelor president
So this is why they call them blueprints
Real Housewives of Paris
He's a little young for fetish play
Pretty but kind of boring
*deep existential sigh*
Bringing the inside out
The only good reason to join a cult
These serpents made hiss-tory
Paul was a bit of a horndog
Art thieves caught red handed
Teaching aide
Waity Katie no more!
That's one melancholic Madame
Talent out the wazoo
Cross-Dresser Extraordinaire
Accidental POTUS
Twenty-seven, Balling
Stalwart no more
More like Honest Babe
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
Swastikas were ok at the time
Angel of Assassination
Two women who don't want to talk to you
Because, Hitler
Baller Jesus
Note: the actual event was a bit less serene
It’s all about perspective
Footloose in French Polynesia
Falling for the same gal
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
He's bad
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Portrait-ception
Cézanne's remix
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Unfinished business
Highly disturbing
A star is born
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Cultural appropriation at its finest
A bargain at twice the price
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Shades of Black
Just another naked lady
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
COTTON EYED JOE
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
It's not witchcraft, it's pussy power!
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Speaking out can have consequences
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Synesthetic symphony
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Drank himself to artist martyrdom
Illustrator extraordinaire
Not bad for a kid who lived in a bubble
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Step right up!
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Obsessed with calligraphy
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Two-faced! But not how you think
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Loves ants
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
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
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
