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Rich diplomat/artist, loved fleshy girls, married a 16 year old when he was 53
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
When you're the god of wine you get to drink from a huge glass
The First Date
Eat first, sex later
Delete the bits about rape and incest, and this could be a story out of Harry Potter
Can "Jacked Renaissance Babies" become a thing?
Three graces are better than one
Listen to your girlfriend. Especially if she's magic.
It came back positive
Queen got your tongue?
A Rubens sandwich of babies and anti-war sentiment
Stick it to The Man
And they say snacking after dinner is sinful
Always wear your seat belt
A literal hellscape
Conveniently peaceful portrait
A little to the left, no, to the right
"You're tearing me apart!"
When men were muscley, women were soft, and there were only four continents
Snack time
And that is how we got the constellation Gemini
Rubens' fighting fleshlight
Baby Herc nips the nip
When the punishment doesn't fit the crime
Just a martyr girl gang
Heyyy
I’m riding that hippo first!
Apparently there's no food chain in heaven
Genoa's fanciest
Always the centaur of attention
Painting the patron
Paint me in too, old buddy
Familial murder and godly revenge
A great painter's quest away from painting
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The Earl goes bankrupt on art
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Don't call it a comeback
When Doves Cry
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
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Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
It's taxidermatological
Savvy politician and ladies' man
Death's photographer
Provocative painter, all-around survivor
Hypebeast or hipster?
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Where's that dam photo?
Big Daddy of it all
His poop took down a power line in Berne
Wore a spiky helmet, just like Bismarck
Not a sports guy
Britain's most hated artist
Wanderlust for Western Canada
Boho Chic
On the dot
Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite
Drama, drama, drama
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Badass portrait painter
Balling all over the world
Possibly cut off van Gogh's ear
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Do what you're good at
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Para el Cambio
Power of a flower
Brains and beauty
Cezanne's bad boy phase
Between the sheets
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
See you at poker night
Have a holly jolly Christmas
Swim anyone?
Bluebird singing
To catch a predator
Phew, that was close.
Whoops He Pinned it Again
How you like them apples?
Weird science
Modern dance mama
Let's Get Ready to Rumble!
Beyond Gauguin & evil
Jesus got jaundice
Penny for her thoughts
Cavorting with prostitutes in Arles
Beheadings in the Pacific
A carnival for the kids
"Fish are friends, not food"
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Cloned but not forgotten
Balling with Garfield
The ineffective president
The bachelor president
So this is why they call them blueprints
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Paul was a bit of a horndog
Art thieves caught red handed
Teaching aide
Waity Katie no more!
That's one melancholic Madame
Talent out the wazoo
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Cross-Dresser Extraordinaire
Accidental POTUS
Twenty-seven, Balling
Stalwart no more
More like Honest Babe
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Swastikas were ok at the time
Angel of Assassination
Two women who don't want to talk to you
Because, Hitler
Baller Jesus
Note: the actual event was a bit less serene
It’s all about perspective
Footloose in French Polynesia
Falling for the same gal
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
He's bad
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Portrait-ception
Cézanne's remix
Unfinished business
Highly disturbing
A star is born
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Cultural appropriation at its finest
A bargain at twice the price
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Just another naked lady
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
COTTON EYED JOE
It's not witchcraft, it's pussy power!
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Speaking out can have consequences
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Step right up!
Synesthetic symphony
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Drank himself to artist martyrdom
Illustrator extraordinaire
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Not bad for a kid who lived in a bubble
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Two-faced! But not how you think
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
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...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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...
