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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
The end of the "holy" Roman empire
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BFF's til the end
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
He's not instilling fear in any pheasants
Gone too soon
He's convinced me now, that Benziger fellow
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Jean du All Trades
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
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
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Not very smart, but had rich supportive parents
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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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The cult of drunkenness
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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!
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
So get ready!
You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
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...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
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
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-...
Ghostwood
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
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...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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’...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
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...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
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...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
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...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
