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.
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
One of the most controversial pieces in the art world, many consider this piece to...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
This one hung in Goya's dining room. Yum!
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Snack time
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
These serpents made hiss-tory
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
A bloody family affair
Œdipus starts some drama
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Buy now on Amazon
One of the most morbid painters ever, and one of the best
Buy now on The Met Store
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
playas gonna play
Mental health facilities in the 1800's bore an uncanny resemblance to dungeons
A Wiley by any other name would be just as mind blowing
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Modernism, but make it accessible
Buy now on Art.com
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Add medals when necessary
Infamous pubes
Creepy kids play creepy game and sing creepy song
A tale of two Majas
Leading, ailing, never failing
A “botched job” that gave us giant robots
Too school for cool
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
Light on the gore this time
When life hands you lemons, paint squiggles
If you fail once, just try, try, try, try, try...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Napoleon's Spanish henchmen stopping a revolt did not go down well with Goya
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
The corner baker in the foreground, incest in the background
Marry museum director, place portrait in museum = success
Not my king
Someone call Matthew Hopkins
Superstition ain't the way
Sounds like salami
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Damn, I look good
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
No more drinkie
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
When will my reflection show who I am inside
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Muse has Rodin by the junk
Hogarth was all about that pug life
Wanna thank your mother for a butt like that
A Lot to handle
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
It's hard to be pithy about statecraft and malaria
Mary Poppins?
A cute outfit can't save you
A violent piece of history
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Sex Reminds Her of Eating Spaghetti
Watch now
Bring your daughters to work day
No days off
Another nude, Gerome?
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
A pre-Dukehood portrait
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Extraordinary People in Such Ordinary Circumstances
Check it out, bro!
Twenty-seven, Balling
Out-of-date wedding announcement
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
Tummy ache?
Those who can't do, paint
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Sacred moment made earthly and intimate
The long-legged elephant in the room
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
After 200 years we have the truth
Hey big spender
Decent navigator, bad salesman
Witness her
MORE FIRE
Shades of Black
Portrait of the tortured artist before he became a cliché
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
If you're a girl, it's ok for your apartment to be disgusting
An unfortunate moral dilemma…
Illuminati confirmed
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Find the elephant
Fancy birthday presents
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
