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, 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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[animetallchan]

[julianfanpageblog]

[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

[marcheriest]

my approximations on the cast of “proof that sokrates was secretly the best matchmaker in athens” (aka the last of the wine by mary renault) :’)

[brehaaorgana]

for the last time: if there's a sexy naked lady with long flowing hair and MAYBE a diaphanous sheet or flower crown; lots of swirlies and ribbon like curving LUSCIOUS shapes; very lush foliage (acanthus leaves, elegant flowers) and all kinds of fauna — both especially waterside (lily pads, lotuses, reeds, cranes, dragonflies); lots of green; everything is a lot of iron, stone, stained glass, mosaic, and carved wood; the windows or their frames are very Shaped; the lights are soft yellow; or it's a font with lots of line weight variation; feather tips are rounded; everything reminds you of france, vienna, or japan and something vaguely mediterranean; OR it's literally a Parisian metro station

— then it's art nouveau

and if the sexy lady has a bob cut or a hair cap and is wearing a column or flapper dress; there's a lot of geometry like rectangles, arches, rays, and diamonds; angels have super sharp wings and a lot of muscles; everything is steel, concrete, marble, gold, and red velvet seats; everything is VERY angular; and all the foliage is basically papyrus fronds; things feel vaguely Egyptian or Turkish or Mesopotamian; the fonts play with being very skinny or very thick and are sans serif with extra lines; or Gatsby would be found floating dead in that pool

— then it's art deco

[brehaaorgana]

And if looks kinda like art nouveau

— with lots of lush flora, tiny insects (like dragonflies) or graceful birds, stained glass, iron, warm golden lighting, lots of wood and wood carving (but now it's more wood paneling), a stylistic fondness for Japan, line weight variation in the font, and tile (but this time it's carved or sculpted on, not tiny mosaic)

but you're worried it's art deco

— because the forms (especially foliage) are very symmetrical and slightly more angular or blocky and graphic looking, things are more rectangular than circular or curvy in architecture, the patterns repeat more often, and more of the lamps are pyramids or rectangular, and there are nods to Egyptian or Ottoman style, and they used the color red (probably in an accent chair or carpet rug)

BUT there's no steel, concrete, gold plating or gilding, marble, big muscles, spiky or radiating diamond shapes, angular people, or flappers,

AND the vibes are jacobean, gothic, or spanish mission revival; they love some brick and stone; the wallpaper is an explosion of colorful pattern that could give you arsenic poisoning or help depict a descent into postpartum psychosis in a famous short story; but there are NO people to be seen, not even sexy ladies,

— then THAT is the arts & crafts movement.

[artandbeauty71]

Hiiii ! I don't know if you already did this at some point but I would love to hear about your top 5 favourite ballets (or books) of all time !

hiii OMG THANKS FOR THE AMAZING QUESTION!! i was hoping someone would ask hehe🫶🏻

I think I've seen about 30+ ballets in total so my favourites would be the ones I think about the most! In no particular order:

1. Swan Lake (this is probably my all time favorite. it's just pure magic, no explanation needed)

2. Romeo and Juliet (it's so painfully beautiful, the first ballet I became properly obsessed with lol)

3. The Nutcracker (nostalgia hits hard on this one, but it's simply enchanting in a way that's just so cozy and brilliant)

4. La Bayadère (it's usually very lavish and full of drama no matter the production, I love it sm)

5. Giselle (a romantic classic, it's hauntingly beautiful, just gorgeous)

honorary mention: the Ballets Russes! they're usually shorter ballets but they're absolutely SPLENDID, especially if you consider them in their historical context - some my favs are Shéhérazade, Le spectre de la rose, The Firebird, Les Sylphides and The afternoon of a Faun.

I do adore some modern/contemporary ballets as well (A Midsummer Night's Dream for example) but these are just top tier to me lol

as for the books, in no particular order:

1. The picture of Dorian Gray

2. Death in Venice

3. Memoirs of Hadrian

4. Narcissus and Goldmund

5. The black arrow (I was very fond of this one as a kid)

[lovelyballetandmore]

Serge Lifar | Photos by Boris Lipnitzki

[songesoleil]

Le spectre de la rose

Vaslav Nijinsky

1911

[artandbeauty71]

no one talk to me ive been watching vintage ballet videos from the 20s/30s/40s/50s and im TRHIVING. making comparisons. observing. im obsessed

[creekfiend]

they should invent something that reduces the amount of pain you are experiencing.

[flopstat]

i ❤️ ice cream sandwiches

[flopstat]

goddamn how drunk was i last night

[davinciwannabesblog]

I have lined up the men, take your pick

[blackeraser]

"Promise I won't sell it."