Merry Christmas (stamps)
Since 1962, the US Postal Service has issued one or more Christmas stamps each year. Many of these stamps have been based on classic works of art, usually from the Renaissance period. And of course many of those works of art are in Art Authority. It’s particularly interesting to see how the Postal Service has “adapted” the works to the stamps. Merry Christmas!
1966 stamp: Madonna and Child with Angels, by Hans Memling, after 1479
1967 stamp: Madonna and Child with Angels, by Hans Memling, after 1479
1968 stamp: The Annunciation, by Jan van Eyck, 1435
1970 stamp: Nativity, by Lorenzo Lotto, 1523
1971 stamp: Adoration of the Shepherds, by Giorgione, 1505-1510
1973 stamp: Small Cowper Madonna, by Raphael, 1504-1505
1975 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1475
1976 stamp: Nativity, by John Singleton Copley, 1776
1979 stamp: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Gerard David, 1510
1981 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Sandro Botticelli, 1475-1485
1982 stamp: Madonna of the Goldfinch, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1767-1770
1983 stamp: Niccolini-Cowper Madonna, by Raphael, 1508
1985 stamp: Genoa Madonna, by Luca Della Robbia, 1445-1450
1986 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Perugino, 1501
1987 stamp: A Gentleman in Adoration before the Madonna, by Giovanni Battista Moroni, 1560
1988 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Sandro Botticelli, 1470
1989 stamp: The Dream of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, by Lodovico Carracci, 1593
1990 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Antonello da Messina, 1475
1993 stamp: Madonna and Child in a Landscape, by Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, 1496-1499
1995 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Giotto di Bondone, 1320-1330
1997 stamp: Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels, by Sano di Pietro, 1460-1470
1999 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Bartolomeo Vivarini, 1475
2002 and 2003 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Jan Gossaert, 1520
2004 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Lorenzo Monaco, 1413
2007 stamp: The Madonna of the Carnation, by Bernardino Luini, 1515
2008 stamp: Virgin and Child with the Young John the Baptist, by Sandro Botticelli, 1490
2009 stamp: Christmas: Madonna and Sleeping Child by Sassoferrato
2011 stamp: Madonna of the Candelabra by Raphael, 1513
2013 stamp: Virgin and Child, by Jan Gossaert, 1531