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Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
growing up fast
Cowboys and Leathergirls
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Just a martyr girl gang
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
#MeToo circa 1600
Beauty is the brains
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
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Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Life in the commune
So get ready!
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
The patron saint of orgasms
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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Because screw your cultural norms
BDSM much?
Waity Katie no more!
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
A long-forgotten treasure from Baroque’s leading lady
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Original pieces from 942 can still be seen
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Witch orgy prep
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Unfinished business
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
I'm here for my mud wrap and mani/pedi
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
Matthew 19:21
George, George, George of the Dragon
Last of the lead white
X marx the spot
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Stiff upper lip
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Bad weather, good painting
“I've been everywhere, man...”
Footloose in French Polynesia
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Paul was a bit of a horndog
A really, really bad trip
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Sister martyr
Stood her ground til the gruesome end
Hunka hunka burnin' love
Got milk?
A healthy dose of Catholic guilt
But wait... there’s more!
Slumped from stigmata
Sh*t’s Escalating...
Monet paints choo choo trains
Should've paid the ransom!
His brother's keeper
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
Second track in PBtheE's seasons album
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
T for Tony
Perks of being a tax collector
Aim for the heart
a sweet escape
Cleaning dramaaa
There’s no “i” in team
Not my idea of ecstasy
Baby before the Baptist
Not quite Game of Thrones
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Shoot first, ask questions later
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Freud’s favorite painting
Boobs held high
Cézanne's remix
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Saint Selfie
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
Do the locomotion with me
A psalm of blood and milk
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Pre-bullets in the neck
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
If ya can't sell it, break it
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
