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Bad boy of the academy
Not very smart, but had rich supportive parents
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Italian sass with Segatori
A bloody family affair
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Flip it and reverse it
Ghostwood
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
French portrait inception
Enjoys long walks on the beach, painting for patrons, and Italian food!
The Man, the Myth, the Cubist
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The penis is v. important in this one
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Jean du All Trades
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
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Sadly, a member of the 27 club
Old school, but not in the cool way
Rocked the Rococo World
Rococ-oh no he didn't
Couldn't catch a break
Rococo like a hurricane
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Go at your own risk
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Kindred spirits
A man of many names and many loves
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Cleaning dramaaa
Baby before the Baptist
Two-faced! But not how you think
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...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
The cult of drunkenness
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Girl next door
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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...
Rag lady
More like the melon diptych, amiright?
Pretty bird
Skelly head
Swing, swingers, it's all the same
Walt Whitman was a fan
No such thing as bad publicity
Cubist dream
Back pain = youth leaving the body
Socrates gone mad
Deconstruction of the boob
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
I can see your halo, halo, halo
He's not instilling fear in any pheasants
Lonely? Build your own girlfriend
Bashi-bazouk—Captain Haddock’s favorite expletive!
Game of Thrones, Season 4 Episode 8
A mystery wrapped in an enigma
“Not for sale” sells for $110.5 million
Like jazz, but a painting
Ma’am, your folds are showing
Young, dumb and in love
You don't need to be a scholar
Shop til' Ya Drop
Bad and Boujee
The Realist in the game
Exactly the white kind of person
A big old brouhaha
A horse walks into a bar...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
She's a man eater, make you work hard, make you spend hard
Age is just a number when it comes to boobs
A stylistic orgy
Late night liaisons
I've been seduced alright... by that great sense of humor!
Not unraveling the moral fabric, probably
SAMO's Pharaoh
Don't look no no, don't touch no no
Group photo time!
Just another pervy kid in Paris
Oriental harem tours with Ingres
Behind every hero is an overprotective mother
Twelve years later
Another nude, Gerome?
My horse needs more henna!
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Anatomy sacrificed for beauty
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
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...
Quick-change artist
Souvenirs from vacation
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Such a punchable face
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
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...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
The end of the "holy" Roman empire
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
BFF's til the end
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The flower-breeding father of fashion photography
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
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...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...