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This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
You can't ignore it
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Careful, might make you howl!
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
The past is female
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Never forget
Hippest place in Brighton
Considerable collections
A little help from our friends
Those Swiss have got it all!
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
Created by Sister Suffragette
Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!
Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
Cooler than an Orange Julius
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
This museum is worth A-GO
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
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Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
