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Sexy Spaniard, missing bones
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Velázquez inceptioned this painting
The Pope doesn't want you to see this booty
Wrapped in red
It’s getting hot in Seville
Kitchen Scene, part 1
Anything for the king
More than just a teacher’s pet.
Juana’s mom has got it going on
Habsburgs on the Hunt
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Frida Kahlo called him her "Frog Prince"
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
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From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Not a one trick pony
Fits 423 hospital beds
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Not for during rush hour
Made in a cabin
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Communism speaks at the Pacific Stock Exchange
Flowers are heavy
Friends with all the superstars
Just another naked lady
Witness her
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Celebration of America or communism?
Before she changed her name...and her man
Too little too late!
Surprise face!
Reflecting on a revolution
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Bad beezy
Rocking the five-head
So you want to be a Cubist?
A long ride for a free meal
A faceless painting surrounded by celebrities
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Not allowed to be political
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Banned for a while
If at first you don’t succeed...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
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...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
