Sartle requires JavaScript to be enabled in order for you to enjoy its full functionality and user-experience.You can find info on how to enable JavaScript for your browser here.
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Before things got ugly life was very good
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
Ex-nun, harassed for painting without a license, official painter of Marie Antoinette
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Frenemies
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Buy now on Amazon
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Before they hated each other's guts
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
English people are snobs
Who is she?
When you look good, we look good (and we get paid)
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Prince Heinrich...so hot right now
Voted most popular, class of 1795
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
French portrait inception
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
You wish you could be this cool
Marie Antoinette's best friend....possibly with benefits
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Taking one for the team
A mama's girl
Not to be confused with Xena the Warrior Princess, Lucy Lawless.
Watch now
"Greatest French artist of all time" - Louis XIV
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Long names and titles
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Is...that how you do it?
Stockbroker's daughter who wowed Degas
Extreme performance artist
The unmentioned pre-Raphaelite sister
Girl Boss
Not suitable for children
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Matchy-matchy
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
Bad beezy
All the single ladies, all the single ladies
Buy now on The Met Store
A teacher's nightmare
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
After 200 years we have the truth
To kill a nightingale
Not an itsy bitsy spider
thatsapenis.gif
Conga line from hell
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
People should pay more attention to their walls
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Portrait of a penis?
More like Louise LOLer
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
If at first you don’t succeed, starve
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
Early morning, emotional promise
Home (not so) sweet home
See and be seen
Clean babies are patriotic!
Pinky out for tea
Get your hair done
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Buy now on Art.com
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Foot fetish anyone?
Girl, your calluses are out of control!
Toilette humor
The girl who just wanted a bath
Barely made it through World War II with the help of some sandbags
Michael Jackson style mothering on a boat!
Creepy child stare
Mary's favorite subject
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
"Thanks, I hate it"
Modernism joins the circus
Sweet baby Jesus
Lost and found
The doctor is in
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Special delivery
Beloved wife, sort of...
Can we get some privacy, please
Don't mess with this kid
Third time's the charm
Crack that whip
Someone needs a first amendment refresher
The other Mary
Get a clue
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
A mystery lady
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Buy now on Taschen
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Couldn't have been a grocery list
OUCH
This woman don’t need no man
Mary's big bro
Sister, Sister: Bible Edition
Jesus is in the kitchen?!
Wait 'til you get a load of this guy
Oh my Goddesses
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Bless your heart
Countess, confidante, and tester of men
It's hard to be pithy about statecraft and malaria
Mary Poppins?
Does it make you randy baby?
Cultural appropriation at its finest
Live easels
A cute outfit can't save you
Girl crush
So get ready!
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Stuff Rich People Own
One high-class whore
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
Sexy stocking stuffers
“No one will even see it…”
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
Total poser
The past is female
Deep, dark humor
How times have changed...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
From portraitist to executioner?
Mo money, mo problems
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Freaky families
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Don't call it a comeback
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Even firecrackers run out of energy eventually
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The sun never sets on Turner’s legacy
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Swirly girly
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Four feet of pure wildfire
Born into a lucky time
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
