Virgin and Child Stamps, Book of 20

Name: Virgin and Child Stamps, Book of 20
SKU: 684104
Price: 14.60 USD
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Virgin and Child Stamps, Book of 20

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Issue Date: 9/22/2022

Depicting the tender bond between a mother and her child, interpretations of the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child take innumerable forms in the Christian art of the Italian Renaissance. This stamp features Virgin and Child, an oil-on-panel painting from the first half of the 16th century.

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Depicting the tender bond between a mother and her child, interpretations of the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child take innumerable forms in the Christian art of the Italian Renaissance. This stamp features Virgin and Child, an oil-on-panel painting from the first half of the 16th century.
Art historians who have long speculated about the identity of this artist have sometimes associated this painting and related paintings with the names of various 16th-century figures. However, since the late 1960s, this artist has been known as the Master of the Scandicci Lamentation based on similarities in style evident in a different painting made for a church in the town of Scandicci, near Florence.
Italian Renaissance artists were often inspired to imitate the compositions of their contemporaries. Scholars believe that this artist adapted the poses of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child from the central figures in the Madonna of the Baldacchino, an unfinished altarpiece made by the painter Raphael for a church in Florence between 1506 and 1508.
This painting is in the Robert Dawson Evans Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Art director Greg Breeding designed the stamp.
This stamp is being issued as a Forever® stamp. Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail® one-ounce price.
Made in the USA

Issue:	Virgin and Child Stamp
Item Number:	684100
Denomination &	First-Class Mail Forever
Type of Issue:
Format:	Double-sided Booklet of 20 (1 design)
Issue Date & City:	September 22, 2022, Boston, MA 02205
Art Director:	Greg Breeding, Charlottesville, VA
Designer:	Greg Breeding, Charlottesville, VA
Existing Art:	The Master of the Scandicci Lamentation
Modeler:	Joseph Sheeran
Manufacturing Process:	Offset, Microprint
Printer:	Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. (APU)
Press Type:	Muller A76
Stamps per Booklet:	20
Print Quantity:	200,000,000 stamps
Paper Type:	Nonphosphored Type III, Block Tagged
Adhesive Type:	Pressure-sensitive
Stamp Orientation:	Vertical
Image Area (w x h):	0.77 x 1.05 in./19.558 x 26.67 mm
Stamp Size (w x h):	0.91 x 1.19 in./23.114 x 30.226 mm
Full Booklet Size (w x h):	5.76 x 2.38 in./146.304 x 60.452 mm
Colors:	Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow
Plate Size:	880 stamps per revolution
Plate Number:	“P” followed by four (4) single digits
Marginal Markings:	Header: Christmas, Virgin and Child, Twenty First-Class Forever Stamps • ©2022 USPS in peel strip area • Barcode • USPS Logo • Promotional text • Plate number in peel strip area • Photograph ©2022 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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