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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

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1967 stamp: Madonna and Child with Angels, by Hans Memling, after 1479

1967stamp madonnachildMemling

 

1968 stamp: The Annunciation, by Jan van Eyck, 1435

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1970 stamp: Nativity, by Lorenzo Lotto, 1523

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1971 stamp: Adoration of the Shepherds, by Giorgione, 1505-1510

 

1973 stamp: Small Cowper Madonna, by Raphael, 1504-1505

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1975 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1475

1975stamp MadonnaChildGHIRLANDAIO

 

1976 stamp: Nativity, by John Singleton Copley, 1776

1976stamp NativityCopley

 

1979 stamp: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Gerard David, 1510

 

1981 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Sandro Botticelli, 1475-1485

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1982 stamp: Madonna of the Goldfinch, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1767-1770

1982stamp MadonnaGoldfinch

 

1983 stamp: Niccolini-Cowper Madonna, by Raphael, 1508

1983stamp MadonnaLargeRaphael

 

1985 stamp: Genoa Madonna, by Luca Della Robbia, 1445-1450

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1986 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Perugino, 1501

1986stamp madonnachildPerugino

 

1987 stamp: A Gentleman in Adoration before the Madonna, by Giovanni Battista Moroni, 1560

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1988 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Sandro Botticelli, 1470

MadonnaChildBotticelli

 

1989 stamp: The Dream of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, by Lodovico Carracci, 1593

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1990 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Antonello da Messina, 1475

MadonnaChildMessina

 

1993 stamp: Madonna and Child in a Landscape, by Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, 1496-1499

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1995 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Giotto di Bondone, 1320-1330

1995stamp MadonnaChildGiotto

 

1997 stamp: Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels, by Sano di Pietro, 1460-1470

MadonnaChildSano

 

1999 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Bartolomeo Vivarini, 1475

 

2002 and 2003 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Jan Gossaert, 1520

2002stamp MadonnaChildAIC

 

2004 stamp: Madonna and Child, by Lorenzo Monaco, 1413

2004stamp MadonnaChildMonaco

 

2007 stamp: The Madonna of the Carnation, by Bernardino Luini, 1515

2007stamp MadonnaCarnation

 

2008 stamp: Virgin and Child with the Young John the Baptist, by Sandro Botticelli, 1490

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2009 stamp: Christmas: Madonna and Sleeping Child by Sassoferrato

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2011 stamp: Madonna of the Candelabra by Raphael, 1513

2011stamp Candelabra

 

2013 stamp: Virgin and Child, by Jan Gossaert, 1531

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