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A stylistic orgy
A man of many names and many loves
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Oriental harem tours with Ingres
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
You don't need to be a scholar
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
She's a man eater, make you work hard, make you spend hard
Age is just a number when it comes to boobs
Don't look no no, don't touch no no
Group photo time!
Behind every hero is an overprotective mother
Twelve years later
Anatomy sacrificed for beauty
Such a punchable face
The end of the "holy" Roman empire
BFF's til the end
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Middle fingers all around
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
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...
Boucher's wife models as a sex slave in training, discuss
Go away Apple!
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
He's not instilling fear in any pheasants
No bra days are the best days
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Gone too soon
He's convinced me now, that Benziger fellow
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Now the big daddy of sculpture, Rodin was originally kind of a loser
Impregnated two of his models, married one of them, painted from a wheelchair
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Get up, stand up. stand up for your right
Enjoys long walks on the beach, painting for patrons, and Italian food!
The Man, the Myth, the Cubist
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
Why is a monkey in the middle of France?
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Playing dress up
Ciao from Venizia
The Grand Canal, by the "Little Canal"
Jean du All Trades
Bad girl kiki
Sadly, a member of the 27 club
Old school, but not in the cool way
Rocked the Rococo World
Rococ-oh no he didn't
Couldn't catch a break
Rococo like a hurricane
Bad boy of the academy
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
"Wish you were here!"
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Killing me Softly
Just another lover's tryst
Not very smart, but had rich supportive parents
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Two-faced! But not how you think
Love or hate?
Deep in thought in San Francisco
A rarity: deep thought in DC
Falsely accused
All the single ladies!
Little bronze people in agony
Step right up!
You've caught my soul!
The walls are falling on all of us
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This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Muse has Rodin by the junk
The geniuses of the Weather underground strike a blow against thought
Is she being coy or does he have bad breath?
Don't lose your junior junior
Who’s to blame for the rococo revival?
Mamaaaaaaa
Married the model
The cult of drunkenness
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Get your towels ready it's about to go down
2 dope queens
Rag lady
More like the melon diptych, amiright?
Pretty bird
Skelly head
Swing, swingers, it's all the same
Walt Whitman was a fan
No such thing as bad publicity
Cubist dream
Back pain = youth leaving the body
Socrates gone mad
Deconstruction of the boob
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Sisters before mistresses
I can see your halo, halo, halo
Lonely? Build your own girlfriend
Bashi-bazouk—Captain Haddock’s favorite expletive!
Game of Thrones, Season 4 Episode 8
A mystery wrapped in an enigma
“Not for sale” sells for $110.5 million
Like jazz, but a painting
Ma’am, your folds are showing
Young, dumb and in love
Shop til' Ya Drop
Bad and Boujee
The Realist in the game
Exactly the white kind of person
A big old brouhaha
A horse walks into a bar...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
So get ready!
Late night liaisons
I've been seduced alright... by that great sense of humor!
Not unraveling the moral fabric, probably
SAMO's Pharaoh
Just another pervy kid in Paris
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Italian sass with Segatori
A bloody family affair
Another nude, Gerome?
My horse needs more henna!
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Flip it and reverse it
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Quick-change artist
Souvenirs from vacation
The greatest sacrifice
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Ghostwood
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
French portrait inception
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
The penis is v. important in this one
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The flower-breeding father of fashion photography
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
They didn’t tell me about Impressionism
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Responsible for the most famous vagina painting in the world
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Loved the countryside, and died of lyme disease contracted in the countryside
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
