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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Oh say can you see
If looks could kill
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
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Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
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One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
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Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
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This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
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Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
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Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
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What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
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All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
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Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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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...
Stick it to The Man
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Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...
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From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Critics poo-poo him
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
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rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
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Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Jesus has had enough!
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Careful, might make you howl!
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
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With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Picture day
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As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Rage-inducing abstraction
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Never forget
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Hippest place in Brighton
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Considerable collections
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Those Swiss have got it all!
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
