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February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Ex-nun, harassed for painting without a license, official painter of Marie Antoinette
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
English people are snobs
Who is she?
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
When you look good, we look good (and we get paid)
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
Frenemies
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Before things got ugly life was very good
Prince Heinrich...so hot right now
Voted most popular, class of 1795
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
"Greatest French artist of all time" - Louis XIV
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Before they hated each other's guts
French portrait inception
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Marie Antoinette's best friend....possibly with benefits
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
People should pay more attention to their walls
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Sorry PETA
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
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Long names and titles
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Act spontaneous!
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Planting seeds
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
A star is born
I want to paint it black
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
