Tarot and Classic Art Poses

I'm not certain where to post this thread, but part of this comes from being grateful...about tarot as fine art handed down through the ages...and me being able to finally enroll in a night figure drawing course again without (hopefully) hand problems that interfere with work and real life.

The ever-graceful Thoth Star has the beautiful classic back torso shot.

Many tarots that I like remind me of figure drawing and classic statuary or other art poses that models can assume...the modern Tarot of Paris reminds me of how classic statuary poses came down through the ages.

Here's Papessa/High Priestess:

1. RWS High Priestess.

http://www.tarotpassages.com/old_moonstruck/oneill/2.htm

2. Here's a High Priestess pose in Tarot of the Bohemians:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/tob/tob15.htm

3. High Priestess in Visconti:

http://quatramaran.ens.fr/~madore/visconti-tarots/large/arcanum-02-high_priestess.jpg

Anyway, after all those classic poses being drilled into my tarot mind, when the model did a 15-minute pose sitting in front of me, I saw the backbone of Papessa for my own designs...please excuse the bare outlines, but I wanted to show the similarity from an unaltered and amateurish study of mine--you could pretend she's wearing a leotard because it's so faint...I'm hoping to next post one about the Star/Stars:

Love your rendition Cerulean, the regalness is there and the head position shows so much! It is amazing how much we absorb from looking at this art in miniature. Your sketch is fresh but echos the images of old.
I am glad and pleased for you, that you got enrolled in the class and I am sure your hands will obey your heart. Take it from one who knows it maybe just takes a fraction longer to steady the hand and give it a stern talking to ~Rosanne

The Stars or the Star:

1. A close up of the Crowley Thoth Star:
http://taratarotweb.tripod.com/id2.html

2. Moonchild's collection of beautiful modern Star images:
http://www.moonchild.ch/Tarot/major/Star/17Vision.html

All I wanted to say is thank you for looking if you get to the image below...because with the warmth and beautiful classic poses that I find in the tarot, I don't think of it as scary, strange--and with artists as Pamela Colman Smith and Frieda Harris, among others, who made classic images more modern, human or symbolic of human thoughts and reachable to us for analysis and study...why couldn't we think of tarot as an art form beautiful to view and reachable to the human mind?

And even touchable to our physical fingers, in the cards we lay down.

Thanks to all tarot fans, past, present and future...that's the sillyness rolling out in my head and hands...

3. My "Star" study: