with love to winnie's memory

public domain by kindest permission of photographer henry townshend

One of the Museum's oldest and best blogfriends, Winnie the greyhound, passed on yesterday.  I can only imagine how her family feels, and send my love.  This morning, thinking of her, I thought I'd find a lovely work of greyhound art to post in her honor.  Thanks to the generosity of a photographer, I have this: the sweetest couple of playing dogs, carved in marble in the 2nd century BC and now at the Hall of Animals at the Vatican's Museo Pio-Clementino.  It goes to show yet again that people have loved and appreciated their dogs for many, many centuries, and that very love makes those very creatures immortal.