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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
The world's newest most expensive painting
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Bandits, volcanoes, and witches, oh my!
Suffered from ADD; good at starting, not finishing. Got caught in a gay foursome
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Not your everyday farm story
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Witch’s brew
Witch orgy prep
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Avada Kedavra
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
I'mma let you finish, but. . .
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Tom Hanks struggled with this one
Picasso was accused of stealing it, and Napoleon hung it in his bedroom
This is how you treat a side chick. Give her a Leonardo
Part two of two!
This story is juicy
Part one of two!
Unfinished as usual
“Madonna and the Bobble Head”
Even Jesus was obsessed with his plants
Where my Doges at?
That's one heavy helmet Oof
Rebirth, Re-use, Recycle
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Turn that frown upside down
Cleaning dramaaa
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Freud’s favorite painting
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...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
BFF's til the end
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
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
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...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Careful, might make you howl!
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
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...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
