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Someone needs a first amendment refresher
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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Stockbroker's daughter who wowed Degas
Extreme performance artist
The unmentioned pre-Raphaelite sister
Girl Boss
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A magic wardrobe of sorts...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Not suitable for children
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Searching for the trace of a trace
Sweet baby Jesus
Bad beezy
All the single ladies, all the single ladies
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Not so Virgin Mary
Touched for the very first time
Not my Madonna
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Getting ready to jam
Part two of two!
Part one of two!
Got milk?
Baby Jesus finally looks his age
A little old baby
Isle of Man coin
When in Rome
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
See and be seen
Clean babies are patriotic!
Pinky out for tea
Get your hair done
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Sweet baby Jesus, it looks real
There’s no “i” in team
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I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Barely made it through World War II with the help of some sandbags
Michael Jackson style mothering on a boat!
Creepy child stare
Mary's favorite subject
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
"Thanks, I hate it"
Modernism joins the circus
Lost and found
The doctor is in
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Freud’s favorite painting
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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...
Crack that whip
The other Mary
Get a clue
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
A mystery lady
Beauty is the brains
Saint Selfie
A psalm of blood and milk
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
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Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Unfinished business
OUCH
This woman don’t need no man
Mary's big bro
Sister, Sister: Bible Edition
Jesus is in the kitchen?!
Wait 'til you get a load of this guy
Oh my Goddesses
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Deep, dark humor
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Girl crush
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
Is...that how you do it?
Frenemies
Total poser
The past is female
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Before things got ugly life was very good
From portraitist to executioner?
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Mo money, mo problems
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Don't call it a comeback
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
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It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
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Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
After 200 years we have the truth
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Four feet of pure wildfire
Born into a lucky time
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Sicker than your average grandma
Too cool for New Zealand
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
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Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
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...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
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