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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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Sorry PETA
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Hitler's jam
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Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Act spontaneous!
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
A star is born
I want to paint it black
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
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...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
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...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
