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Bad boy of the academy
Not very smart, but had rich supportive parents
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Italian sass with Segatori
A bloody family affair
Flip it and reverse it
Ain't no place for a little lady
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Ghostwood
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Enjoys long walks on the beach, painting for patrons, and Italian food!
The Man, the Myth, the Cubist
French portrait inception
The penis is v. important in this one
And if the wind is right you can sail away
Romantic load of crap
Jean du All Trades
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
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March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
A man of many names and many loves
Go at your own risk
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Kindred spirits
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Two-faced! But not how you think
Cleaning dramaaa
Baby before the Baptist
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Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
The cult of drunkenness
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Girl next door
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
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
I can see your halo, halo, halo
He's not instilling fear in any pheasants
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
You don't need to be a scholar
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...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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
Late night liaisons
I've been seduced alright... by that great sense of humor!
Not unraveling the moral fabric, probably
SAMO's Pharaoh
Don't look no no, don't touch no no
Group photo time!
Just another pervy kid in Paris
Oriental harem tours with Ingres
Behind every hero is an overprotective mother
Twelve years later
Another nude, Gerome?
My horse needs more henna!
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Anatomy sacrificed for beauty
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Quick-change artist
Souvenirs from vacation
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Such a punchable face
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The end of the "holy" Roman empire
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
BFF's til the end
The flower-breeding father of fashion photography
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
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...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Once Punched a Skeleton
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
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,...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons 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...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...