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Back in the manger
One of many Pietas
Just taking a nap
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
When ‘I told you so’ doesn’t feel so sweet
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Never married and said the very idea gave him nightmares, but loved a certain redhead.
A better title: "widow and orphan"
Begging for bad karma
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Did they have anti-histamine pills back then
Evil villain's ideal getaway
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Hold that pose
Poor Jesus
If you had only one hand where would you put it?
Comes with complimentary Christmas song
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Made in a cabin
She sells seashells by the sea shore
Botticelli grows old and violent
Satyr? I hardly know her!
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Wearing a vest of many colors
Finally, a female gaze
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Jesus got jaundice
Light at the end of the tunnel?
Poor unfortunate simonetta
When in Rome
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Who are the jabronis blocking J.C.?
Bye, Felicia
Rembrandt’s only seascape is one of the most famous stolen paintings yet to be found
Now you see me...
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Lots of action here
#BlackArtMatters
The other Starry Night
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Calling folks out
Sister, Sister: Bible Edition
Jesus is in the kitchen?!
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
When it rains it pours
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
Extraordinary People in Such Ordinary Circumstances
Choosing cute boys over Jesus, everyday
All that glitters sometimes actually is gold
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Men react to the friendzone
Feeding your dogs a diet of girls who friendzone you
Miss. Manners says murder at the dinner table is rude
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Swimming pool. drank
Sacred moment made earthly and intimate
Jesus has had enough!
A psalm of blood and milk
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Bring a hankie
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
A colorful feast
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
A holy foot rub
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
