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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Horse on a treadmill
Ceramic sex toys are a thing with her
Surprise, sexism in the Victorian era
A burn too sick for the ER
Escaped the guillotine, unlike her friend Marie
Ex-nun, harassed for painting without a license, official painter of Marie Antoinette
Lange is holding a camera! Really!
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
An obvious wrong
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
An egotistical maniac, or my new boo?
Waiting for the white angel
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Hungry
That sass though
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Ain't that a kick?
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Taxes too high? Naked horse ride, baby.
Lil' Bee Bee sees right through ya
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Goin' to the chapel, gonna get married
Are you sure that’s all you’re selling?
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...
Only men can see this one
She used a good filter
Queen of masques unmasked
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Who is she?
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Now that's a resting bitch face
There’s no “i” in team
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
When you look good, we look good (and we get paid)
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
Live easels
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Nightmares of Rococo
Freud’s favorite painting
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...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Before things got ugly life was very good
Voted most popular, class of 1795
Long names and titles
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Gay as a moonbeam
Taking one for the team
We want the Funk
Alexa, play “Levitating” by Dua Lipa
Before they hated each other's guts
French portrait inception
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
From portraitist to executioner?
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Marie Antoinette's best friend....possibly with benefits
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The penis is v. important in this one
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
There's no one quite like her
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Born into a lucky time
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Careful, might make you howl!
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Say my name, say my name
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
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...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
