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.
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Size matters...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Buy now on Amazon
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
For one BIG garden
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
Shot through the heart
No use crying over spilt milk...unless that milk is ice cream
You could call it a butt crack
Bigger is better
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Let's hope this does not go with a giant diaper
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Home of art's most famous orgasm
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
You betta werk!
Oh say can you see
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Beaucoup Bones
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Have a holly jolly Christmas
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Marry museum director, place portrait in museum = success
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
