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Original pieces from 942 can still be seen
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
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...
If you were catholic and rich in the 1600's you wanted to join this club and give them art
Go at your own risk
Germans "borrowed" it, Russians "saved" it
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Check your home security system people
Buy now on Amazon
Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
Pass the popcorn
New York art world subterfuge
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Life in the commune
Everybody loves a celebration!
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
The patron saint of orgasms
It's not a vagina!
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Vive La Revolution!
Warning: this painting may cause extreme déjà vu
No relation to the steak
A long-forgotten treasure from Baroque’s leading lady
Unfinished business
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
I'm here for my mud wrap and mani/pedi
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
growing up fast
Matthew 19:21
George, George, George of the Dragon
Last of the lead white
X marx the spot
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
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
"Hyperreal"
T for Tony
Perks of being a tax collector
Aim for the heart
Just a martyr girl gang
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
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Freud’s favorite painting
Boobs held high
#MeToo circa 1600
Cézanne's remix
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Beauty is the brains
Saint Selfie
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
Do the locomotion with me
A psalm of blood and milk
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
If ya can't sell it, break it
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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.
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Last known painting of Manet's favorite model
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
So get ready!
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
