Ex Libris...F Schneider 1913

Jean Marais (1913-1998) ~ Medusa, bronze sculpture unknown date

Jean Marais (1913-1998) ~ Sphinx with horns, patinated bronze sculpture unknow date

Alfons Mucha (1860-1939)...The Kiss of Spring, oil on canvas 1933

Born today... Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), March 20, 43 BC

All things are always changing,

But nothing dies. The Spirit comes and goes,

Is housed wherever it wills, shifts residence

From beasts to men, form men to beasts, but always

it keeps on living. As the pliant wax

Is stamped with new designs, and is no longer

What once it was, but changes form, and still

Is pliant wax, so do I teach that spirit

Is evermore the same, though passing always

To ever-changing bodies.

-Metamorphoses Book XV 165-8

image: God Pan, woodcut from Metamorphoses 1498

Francesco del Cossa... Allegory of March: Triumph of Minerva, fresco 1476-84

Happy Vernal Equinox! Image : Jacques LeMoyne de Morgues (1533–1588) Young Daughter of the Picts, watercolour and gouache, touched with gold on parchment c1585