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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...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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Sorry PETA
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Act spontaneous!
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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:...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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...
“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...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
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...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
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...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
