Every two years the U.S. Postal Service issues a traditional first-class Christmas stamp showing Mary and Jesus, and this year's stamp features an oil-on-panel painting from the first half of the 16th century titled "Virgin and Child."
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BOSTON (CNS) Every two years the U.S. Postal Service issues a traditional first-class Christmas stamp showing Mary and Jesus, and this year s stamp features an oil-on-panel painting from the first half of the 16th century titled Virgin and Child.
Attributed to a Florentine artist known since the late 1960s as the Master of the Scandicci Lamentation, the painting is in the Robert Dawson Evans Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The stamp was designed by Greg Breeding, co-found