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You wish you could be this cool
Early morning, emotional promise
Home (not so) sweet home
A mama's girl
Not to be confused with Xena the Warrior Princess, Lucy Lawless.
Ex-nun, harassed for painting without a license, official painter of Marie Antoinette
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Not an itsy bitsy spider
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Conga line from hell
Portrait of a penis?
More like Louise LOLer
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
English people are snobs
Who is she?
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
When you look good, we look good (and we get paid)
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
Frenemies
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Before things got ugly life was very good
Prince Heinrich...so hot right now
Voted most popular, class of 1795
Long names and titles
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Before they hated each other's guts
Stuff Rich People Own
One high-class whore
French portrait inception
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
A hotter mascot than the Pope
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Marie Antoinette's best friend....possibly with benefits
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
So get ready!
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
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...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Swirly girly
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’...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
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,...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
