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Back in the manger
One of many Pietas
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Just taking a nap
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
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Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Never married and said the very idea gave him nightmares, but loved a certain redhead.
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
When ‘I told you so’ doesn’t feel so sweet
A better title: "widow and orphan"
Begging for bad karma
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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...
Did they have anti-histamine pills back then
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Evil villain's ideal getaway
If you had only one hand where would you put it?
Comes with complimentary Christmas song
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Hold that pose
Poor Jesus
She sells seashells by the sea shore
Botticelli grows old and violent
Satyr? I hardly know her!
Finally, a female gaze
Jesus got jaundice
Light at the end of the tunnel?
Poor unfortunate simonetta
When in Rome
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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’...
Who are the jabronis blocking J.C.?
Bye, Felicia
Rembrandt’s only seascape is one of the most famous stolen paintings yet to be found
Now you see me...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Lots of action here
#BlackArtMatters
The other Starry Night
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Calling folks out
Sister, Sister: Bible Edition
Jesus is in the kitchen?!
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
When it rains it pours
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
Extraordinary People in Such Ordinary Circumstances
Choosing cute boys over Jesus, everyday
All that glitters sometimes actually is gold
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Men react to the friendzone
Feeding your dogs a diet of girls who friendzone you
Miss. Manners says murder at the dinner table is rude
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Swimming pool. drank
Sacred moment made earthly and intimate
Jesus has had enough!
A psalm of blood and milk
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Bring a hankie
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
A colorful feast
A holy foot rub
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
