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Girl next door

Why the long face?

1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens

Think of what you'd save on wrinkle cream...

Graceful

It takes two to tango

The OG wet t-shirt contest

Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit

The Devil Wears Prada meets My Girl

Coveted by an artistic priest with sticky fingers

A-Hunting We Will Go

Just another beheading. Yawn

Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...

It’s a rich man’s world

Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...

Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...

I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...

Fashion Alert!  Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...

If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...

Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...

Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...

In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...

Her genital puns are not gentle

Son of Cranach the Elder

Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...

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Rockstar painter and (unknowingly) painter of album covers for rockstars

Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...

Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...

It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life.  ...

They’re coming for your books.   Biblioclasm is the practice of...

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SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...

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Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...

Colonel underpants

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Dutch nicknames are bizarre

Death to rapist scum!

He gave the people what they wanted

Gives new meaning to the term "food porn"

“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...

A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...

The Young and the Restless meets The Old and the Feckless

So. creepy.

Creepers gonna creep

That's So Graven

Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie?  We...

Do I make you horny baa-baa?

Hello, Darkness my old friend

Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...

We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...

YBAs are so fetch.    Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...

Last chance to get some before it all goes to hell!

Like a sale at your local mall...in Hell.

Tie the devil to a pillow

Really expensive calendar

Time to break out your magnifying glass

omg a wedding in a barn, that's so on trend

It's Saul in utter chaos

Ain’t no party like a Pieter Bruegel the Elder party

A teacher's nightmare

When he ugly but he Jesus

Original cowboys

Gallery within a gallery

Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...

Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*

Go at your own risk

Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?

Kindred spirits

The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...

Boy drowns; no one cares

2 spoopy 4 me

An ophthalmologist's favorite painting

Mmmm...peacock

Goin' to the chapel, gonna get married

  Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...

If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...

Cleaning dramaaa

Baby before the Baptist

Bad boy of the academy

Second track in PBtheE's seasons album

Two of each

Paint me in too, old buddy

Where do I look first?

Exotic dancing pays off in a gruesome way for Salome

Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...

Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...

John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...

One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...

Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?

Not very smart, but had rich supportive parents

  Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...

The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...

Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...

T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...

Let your freak flag fly

Man of mystery

Portraitist of unfortunate accuracy

  Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...

Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...

Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...

Sounds like salami

You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...

Should have stayed in the corn business

Arrested as an American spy in Britain during the Revolutionary War

"Talent is cheap"

Fancy pornographer

A man of many names and one iconic mustache.

Pretty fly for a (Louisiana) white guy

Everyman painter

Burr's best bud

All the glee of youngsters

Rockstar of the high court

Art as political protest

With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...

There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...

As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...

On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...

Ladies Man

Wet blanket

easy, breezy, beautiful

Popular amongst those who frequent Renaissance Faires.

honestly pretty vanilla

Hated Picasso

Like a nocturnal Canaletto

Conversion artist

It's His Majesty's handyman, at your service

Bird-brained businessman. Eagle-eyed artist.

The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...

That way it’s rent-free

When you need to practice painting dead people

Carravagio having a bad head day

Up in smoke!

Let's hope this baby stays decapitated

Begging for bad karma

Treasures around every corner

His family reluctantly accepted his painter lifestyle

We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...

  The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...

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Delete the bits about rape and incest, and this could be a story out of Harry Potter

The sweetest Judith of them all

A political statement

When you just killed Goliath no one dares tell you how to dress, even if it's like this

I had a hearty laugh watching Toy Story some 20 years later and finally getting...

Never underestimate the women

Murder, but make it fashion

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We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

Italian sass with Segatori

A bloody family affair

Poop in style while you enjoy art

Come one, come all

Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...

Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...

If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...

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Rubens' fighting fleshlight

Cleanly decapitation

Problematic, but in a nice way

How's the air up there?

Arcimboldo's Greatest Hits

Haunted horse

Flip it and reverse it

May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...

As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...

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As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...

Van Gogh's teachers did not like his work

Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...

Too school for cool

Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...

paint me like one of your founding fathers

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Ghostwood

  Art history, but make it fashion.   Is the Met better known...

In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...

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French portrait inception

Cooler than cool

Did you fail geography?

Dionysus' groupies

Clearly not a hobo

Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot

Miscreants of Mammon

Does this wax cast make my thigh look fat?

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If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...

Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...

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Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...

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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...

The penis is v. important in this one

Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....

If you were catholic and rich in the 1600's you wanted to join this club and give them art

Kirsten Dunst copied this

A hairy art critic

Men brought down by a strap

Where will you be when the plague hits?

Caused a stir after its unveiling because of all the hot leg action.

Country bliss you can still visit... for now.

His teeth and ambitions are bared

Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment

Lady Jane

It really went downhill from there

Snapshot of an elusive charmer.

Achey heart, breaky back

The ten-dollar Founding Father

You may recognize him from high school English class

Ahoy, Cap'n!

Notorious B.G.M. (Boy Genius Millais)

A painter's lost dream on antiquity

Looking smug

Hellion with heart

The muse of Capri

Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....

Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager   Can you even...

Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...

In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....

Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso

If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

Stress-free

Award for most expressive horses

You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache

Oooh, see that girl! Watch that scene! Dig in the Dancing Queeeeeeeeeeeeen!

But wait... there’s more!

Witch, please

The sallow, mustached face of imperialism

Welcome home, honey...

Has nothing to do with onions

Peace for everyone

Self love taken too far

These dresses aren't hiding anything

Heavy-handed relief

See ya later, Alligator

Crack open a cold one

Women digging graves?! Bury him, sis!

Just a whale dung kind of day

Renew the song she is singing

Six candles

Queen of masques unmasked

Identity crisis

Buffalo Bill's Back Fat

Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...

Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...

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This just in: Sartle makes new friends!  Amelia, Victoria, and...

This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...

This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.

Where have we seen this lady before?

Well, he took it better than Captain Ahab

Richie Rich

Figurative expressionism fit for the POTUS

This is an apology portrait.

A political pain in the ass

Named after a coded slave song

A divine feminine unwavering

Neckties, pianos, and outcasts

You talkin’ to me?

An early abstract portrait

Away, as in a trance

No days off

Scene so nice he painted it thrice

The sexy doctor is IN

Wait 'til you get a load of this guy

Lending the Communist Party a hand

Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...

Beheadings and fine fashion are not mutually exclusive

#MILF

Accidental POTUS

Telekinesis never sounded so good

aka "Darnation, Silly, Silly, Pose"

Extraordinary People in Such Ordinary Circumstances

No relation to the steak

Stylish long before Gossip Girl

Meddlesome Millie

Feasting feathered friends

Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...

  This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...

She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..

Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...

It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...

Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...

"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...

Our founding mother

When the guilt just keeps on coming.

Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer

Choo choo twain

Don’t mansplain!

Let’s paint here, they won’t find us

A bargain at twice the price

Friend of the fam

Total poser

Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...

Madame X by John Singer Sargent

Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...

It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...

Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93.  Modern Audiences and Comic...

The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...

Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...

This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...

The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...

Criticizing the critics

Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...

Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...

Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...

Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...

  Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...

Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...

Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...

March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...

Happy Bastille Day, everyone!  It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...

When Doves Cry

This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...

Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...

Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...

One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...

Like characters in a Henry James novel

  Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...

  “An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...

Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...

  When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...

  It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...

Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...

via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...

Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...

This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...

This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...

What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...

MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...

The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...

Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...

This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...

This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...

Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...

The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...

The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...

Boy, did he know how to paint a figure

Plaster king

The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...

Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...

It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...

The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico

Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

  Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...

Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...

The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...

…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...

Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...

All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...

At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...

So get ready!

Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...

Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...

Man of many hats

One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...

If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...

  Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...

In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...

Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...

It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...

Say that name five times fast.

If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...

Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...

From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...

If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...

It's St. Patrick's Day!  And while we all may be Irish today, these...

Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...

This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).

It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...

Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...

Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...

Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...

Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...

Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...

Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...

After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...

I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...

Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7

Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...

  What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...

Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...

Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...

How do you like your museums?  I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...

  Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...

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

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

  Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....

Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...

This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...

Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art

“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...

On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...

Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...

The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...

The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...

Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...

These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...

Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...

What does Red look like?  Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...

Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...

Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...

Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...

As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...

From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...

Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...

An art bromance or something more?   Land art celebrity and hippie...

Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...

Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...