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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
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
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...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
English people are snobs
Who is she?
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...
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
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...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
"Greatest French artist of all time" - Louis XIV
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Before they hated each other's guts
French portrait inception
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
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...
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...
Marie Antoinette's best friend....possibly with benefits
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...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
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...
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...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
People should pay more attention to their walls
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Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Sorry PETA
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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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Act spontaneous!
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Long names and titles
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
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...
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...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Possible peace portrait
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
