2022 Virgin and Child Forever First Class Postage Stamps

Depicting the tender bond between a mother and her child, interpretations of the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child takeinnumerable forms in the Christian art of the ltalian Renaissance. This stamp features Virgin and Child, an oil-on-panel paintingfrom the first half of the 16th centuny.
Art historians who have long speculated about the identity of this artist have sometimes associated this painting and relatedpaintings with the names of various 16th-century figures. However, since the late 1960s, this artist has been known as the Masterof the Scandicci Lamentation based on similarities in style evident in a different painting made for a church in the town ofScandicci, near Florence.
talian Renaissance antists were often inspired to imitate the compositions of their contemporaries, Scholars believe that this artistadapted the poses of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child from the central figures in the Madonna of the Baldacchino, anunfinished 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 designedthe stamp.
This stamp is being issued as a Forever@ stamp. Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail@ oneounce price.
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