22 March

Born in 1728 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter and theorist.

Above: Helios as Personification of Midday and Diana as Personification of the Night, c. 1765.

Also, born in 1908, American writer Louis L'Amour, who said:

“The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume that there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of any education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.”