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Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
Picasso was accused of stealing it, and Napoleon hung it in his bedroom
They grow up so fast
You think you know, but you have no idea.
Ladies first!
America, hell yeah!
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Zebulon's son
Buy now on Amazon
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Not your mama's still life
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Space Fan Art
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
I like big butts and I cannot lie
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Dude, I feel totally sublime
Enjoy the view
You're gunna get cut
I’d give that cannonball a 6 out of 10
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Careful, might make you howl!
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
What makes her smile?
Chug! Chug! Chug!
Paradise but dramatic
A smorgasbord of structures
Dinner with a view (for the eagle)
Think twice before your next wax
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Old school drinking game in progress
God save the Queen!
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
When a landscape artist is commissioned to paint a religious scene
Ctrl+X: “industrialism”
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
17th century drinking game anyone?
Like Mavericks, but safer
Straight outta Camden
Colossally romantic
When he ugly but he Jesus
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
SAMO's Pharaoh
Go ahead and take a peek
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Give 'em the ol' razzle dazzle
Viagra was the duke's only wish
"Sleep"
Rags-to-riches before it was cool
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Man of many hats
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...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
A violent piece of history
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Decent navigator, bad salesman
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
The Ambassador Quintet
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Float like a butterfly, sting like Aeneas
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
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
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
