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A man of many names and many loves
You don't need to be a scholar
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
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
Don't look no no, don't touch no no
Group photo time!
Oriental harem tours with Ingres
Behind every hero is an overprotective mother
Twelve years later
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Anatomy sacrificed for beauty
Such a punchable face
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The end of the "holy" Roman empire
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BFF's til the end
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
He's not instilling fear in any pheasants
Gone too soon
He's convinced me now, that Benziger fellow
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Now the big daddy of sculpture, Rodin was originally kind of a loser
Impregnated two of his models, married one of them, painted from a wheelchair
Enjoys long walks on the beach, painting for patrons, and Italian food!
The Man, the Myth, the Cubist
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Jean du All Trades
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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
Bad boy of the academy
Bad girl kiki
Not very smart, but had rich supportive parents
Killing me Softly
Just another lover's tryst
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
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...
Love or hate?
Deep in thought in San Francisco
A rarity: deep thought in DC
Falsely accused
All the single ladies!
Little bronze people in agony
Step right up!
You've caught my soul!
The walls are falling on all of us
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The cult of drunkenness
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Muse has Rodin by the junk
The geniuses of the Weather underground strike a blow against thought
Is she being coy or does he have bad breath?
Don't lose your junior junior
Who’s to blame for the rococo revival?
Mamaaaaaaa
Married the model
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
Get your towels ready it's about to go down
2 dope queens
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Sisters before mistresses
I can see your halo, halo, halo
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
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...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Late night liaisons
I've been seduced alright... by that great sense of humor!
Not unraveling the moral fabric, probably
SAMO's Pharaoh
Just another pervy kid in Paris
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Italian sass with Segatori
A bloody family affair
Another nude, Gerome?
My horse needs more henna!
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
So get ready!
You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Flip it and reverse it
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Quick-change artist
Souvenirs from vacation
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
The greatest sacrifice
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Ghostwood
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...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
French portrait inception
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
The flower-breeding father of fashion photography
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
The penis is v. important in this one
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
