the curve of your lips rewrites history✨

she/her | 🇮🇹 | 19 | INFP | bi/ace🩷💜💙 | classicist at heart🏺| professional yearner💞 | my heart beats in dactylic hexameter 🪽 |

[artandbeauty71]

Fall in love with art, ✨worship beauty✨

Hii, I'm Sophie! This blog is mainly for sharing non/original art (tag for original is #my art), obsessing over fictional characters and stuff I like, and sometimes I also ramble lol

✨ What my soul is made of✨

aka my obsessions/interests

~ Anything related to ancient cultures (that's the subject of my studies hehe) and media inspired by it

~ Mythology, mainly (but not only) Greek and Roman, and hellenic polytheism (I'm a beginner helpol!)

~ Classic literature, especially romanticism, aestheticism and symbolism, and related art history

~ Classical music, ballet (my beloved <3), theatre and musicals

~ Vintage/old money aesthetics and related historical periods

~ Disney, Dreamworks and Studio Ghibli movies

~ Shoujo manga/anime

~ Drawing (both traditional and digital)

~ Translating (mainly classic literature)

~ Tarot reading (thanks to The Arcana)

~ Playing the piano, singing and dancing

(more under the cut!)

✨ List of favourites!✨

for further info about everything listed above

~ Ancient literature: The Iliad, Homeric Hymns, Sappho's poems, Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus, The Bacchae, Catullus' poems, Vergil's Eclogues, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche, Satyricon, Dialogue of the Gods

~ Classic literature: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Sonnets, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Happy Prince and other tales, Death in Venice, Narcissus and Goldmund, Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddharta, Gertrud, Notre Dame de Paris, Les Misérables, Memoirs of Hadrian, Wuthering Heights

~ Movies: The Sound of Music, Romeo and Juliet (1968), Death in Venice, Ludwig (1973 and 2012), Nijinsky, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, The prince of Egypt, Howl's Moving Castle, Alexander, Little Women, Riot at the Rite, Tristan and Isolde, Fireworks

~ Classical composers (pieces would be too hard to choose from): Chopin, Mahler, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Wagner, Debussy

~ Ballets: absolutely ADORE them all - even the niche ones - so the list would be too long lol

~ Operas: Lohengrin, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung, Tristan und Isolde, Death in Venice

~ Musicals: Notre Dame de Paris, Romeo and Juliet (French and Italian version), Les Misérables

~ Historical figures (aka dead people who have taken up 90% of my brain at some point): Alexander the Great, Sappho, Antinous, Theodora, Ludwig II of Bavaria, Elizabeth of Austria, Fryderyk Chopin, Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, Vaslav Nijinsky, Tamara Karsavina

~ Anime/manga: Kaze to ki no uta, Lady Georgie, Rose of Versailles, Love through a prism

~ Videogames: Hades 1 & 2, The Arcana, Sultan's Game, Fields of Mistria, Romance Club, Love and Deepspace (and more I don't remember lmao🫠)

I am a mosaic of everything I've ever loved ✨🌹🦢

~ My AO3

https://archiveofourown.org/users/artandbeauty/works

~ My Pinterest

Sofyy✨ | love art, worship beauty 🌹

~ My Letterboxd

artandbeauty uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 68 films watched. Favorites: Death in Venice (1971), Ludwig (1973), Howl's Mov

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Tamara Karsavina and Vaslav Nijinsky costumed for Giselle

ph. L. Roosen

[riotarttherite]

Still trying to get out my old digital stuff that doesn’t really stand on its own, my Ballets Russes batch!  Spectre de la Rose, then some sketches from my dream visual novel about Nijinsky that will never happen (including a Karsavina portrait), then a Roerich and Fokine portrait from a collection of informative illustrations about Ballets Russes people that will never happen. And a Les Biches sketch

[thinkingimages]

Tamara Karsavina as Echo in Narcisse (Fokine/Tcherepnine). Photo by Dover Street Studios, London, 1912.

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Beautiful Tamara Karsavina 🌹

She was a Russian prima ballerina, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev!

After settling in Britain, she began teaching ballet professionally and became recognised as one of the founders of modern British ballet!

Karsavina assisted in the establishment of The Royal Ballet and was a founder member of the Royal Academy of Dance!

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the horrors persist but so do books, art, hot chocolate, winter nights, the moon, the sea, the stars, sunsets, literature, libraries, cats, flowers, stories, love and the wistful feeling you get when you finally return home

[galusandmalus]

"When I came there, at first no host of the Athenians was willing to receive me, as being abhorred of the gods. But those who took pity on me offered me hospitality at a table set apart, being in the same room… and that I might not be saddened by drinking apart from them, they filled a private cup for each man, and kept silent, so that I should not hear or speak to anyone while taking my meal." - orestes in iphegenia among the taurians

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I love daydreaming and not having to participate in life

[wovi]

[artandbeauty71]

top 5 mortals in classical mythology?

ooo that is interesting

1. Achilles

2. Hyacinthus

3. Ariadne

4. Orestes (and pylades lol)

5. Narcissus

honorable mentions: Narcissus, Iphigenia, Deidamia, Euryalus, Danae

[artandbeauty71]

what are your top 5 movies?

I would probably say (in no particular order)

1. Death in Venice

2. The prince of Egypt

3. Howl's moving castle

4. Alexander

5. Little women (the 90s one)

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[8nin]

and for the lady, perhaps a love so pure?

[midnightinshadow]

[gringolet]

arthuriana mutual one: who up arthurianing they literature

arthuriana mutual two: omg my masters dissertation is due tomorrow

arthuriana mutual three: ive been getting really into this welsh text where lancelot is a presbyterian minister

arthuriana mutual four: i wish knights were real so i could put a leash on one and make him bark

arthuriana mutual five: my book is coming out next month

arthuriana mutual six: i rhink i saw chretien de troyes in my room last night