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Back in the manger
One of many Pietas
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Just taking a nap
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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.
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
A better title: "widow and orphan"
Begging for bad karma
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Did they have anti-histamine pills back then
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Evil villain's ideal getaway
If you had only one hand where would you put it?
Comes with complimentary Christmas song
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Hold that pose
Poor Jesus
She sells seashells by the sea shore
Botticelli grows old and violent
Satyr? I hardly know her!
Finally, a female gaze
Jesus got jaundice
Poor unfortunate simonetta
When in Rome
Light at the end of the tunnel?
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Lots of action here
#BlackArtMatters
The other Starry Night
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Calling folks out
Sister, Sister: Bible Edition
Jesus is in the kitchen?!
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
When it rains it pours
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
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
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
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
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...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Swimming pool. drank
Sacred moment made earthly and intimate
Jesus has had enough!
A psalm of blood and milk
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...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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”...
Bring a hankie
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
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*
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...