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Stockbroker's daughter who wowed Degas
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See and be seen
Clean babies are patriotic!
Pinky out for tea
Get your hair done
Mary's big bro
Michael Jackson style mothering on a boat!
Creepy child stare
Mary's favorite subject
"Thanks, I hate it"
Crack that whip
This woman don’t need no man
Is...that how you do it?
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Extreme performance artist
The unmentioned pre-Raphaelite sister
Girl Boss
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Not suitable for children
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Bad beezy
All the single ladies, all the single ladies
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Barely made it through World War II with the help of some sandbags
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
Modernism joins the circus
Sweet baby Jesus
Lost and found
The doctor is in
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Someone needs a first amendment refresher
The other Mary
Get a clue
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
A mystery lady
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
OUCH
Sister, Sister: Bible Edition
Jesus is in the kitchen?!
Wait 'til you get a load of this guy
Oh my Goddesses
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Girl crush
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
Frenemies
Total poser
The past is female
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Before things got ugly life was very good
From portraitist to executioner?
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Mo money, mo problems
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Don't call it a comeback
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
After 200 years we have the truth
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Four feet of pure wildfire
Born into a lucky time
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Sicker than your average grandma
Too cool for New Zealand
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Famous for wearing men's clothes, smoking cigarettes, and generally NGAF
The ultimate cool beat chick
One wild and sexy lady
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Close friend of Manet's, even though he took it upon himself to "fix up" one of her paintings
Has a disease named after him
Just as good as her hubby, if not better!
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
