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This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
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...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
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...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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 ...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
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...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
You can't ignore it
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Careful, might make you howl!
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
The past is female
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Never forget
Hippest place in Brighton
Considerable collections
A little help from our friends
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Those Swiss have got it all!
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
