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Airmail stamp of the Republic of Burundi (First Republic); 1968; commemorative stamp of the issue to "Christmas 1968"; The dipicted stamp is BDI Michel: No. 464A from 1968 and shows as stamp motive a the painting "The Holy Family with Santa Anna" by El Greco (1541-1614) ("El Greco" means literally "The Greek" because he was born on Crete (Greece)) from the "Szépmuveszeti Muzeum" (= "Museum of Fine Arts") in Budapest (Hungary).; El Greco was a scholar of Titian.; It’s giving several paintings by El Greco to the topic "Holy Family", but only one is showing the "Saint Anne" (= mother of Mary = "Santa Anna") on the left side and the "Saint John" (Spanish original name: "San Juan Bautista"; German: "Johannes der Täufer") on the right side.; This painting was created (probably) 1595 in the Spanish town Toledo (not in USA) in the style of the Spanish Mannerism.; Since 1600 is this painting in Budapest.; Unfortunately this stamp was postmarked with an unreadable CTO.
Stamp: Michel: No. 464A; Yvert & Tellier: No. PA102; Scott: No. C95
Color: multicolored with gold
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 17 F. (Franc)

Postage validity: from 26 November 1968
date QS:P,+1968-11-26T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1968-11-26T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp without most below arabesque): 31.5 x 43.0 mm
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Source scan of original
Author Postal administration of Burundi
Permission
(Reusing this file)
Public domain This work was first published in Burundi and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Law No. 1/021 of December 30, 2005 on the Protection of Copyright and Related Rights in Burundi, enacted 2005 (details). The work meets one of the following criteria:
  • It is an anonymous work or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication (or creation, whatever date is the latest)
  • It is a collective work, audiovisual or posthumous work and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication (or creation, whatever date is the latest)
  • It is a work of applied art and 25 years have passed since the date of its creation
  • It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)
  • It is one of "acts, legal decisions and decisions of administrative bodies and the official translations of such texts"
Other versions

the same stamp also as part of a se-tenant (Michel: No. 464AZf), as part of a block (Block 30 with 464A = perforated, 464B = imperforate), the same stamp with overprint "Christmas flight Apollo 8" in 1969 (No. 478)

  • The original painting in Budapest
    The original painting in Budapest
  • The artist ("Selfportrait") between 1595 and 1600 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1595-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1600-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
    The artist ("Selfportrait") between 1595 and 1600
    date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1595-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1600-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
There are many copies of this painting and several variants with or without the depicted figures.
Picture description Painting "The Holy Family with St. Anne and Saint John" by El Greco (1541-1614)
First day of issue
Publisher Postal administration of Burundi
Design El Greco (1541-1614) (creator of the depicted artwork)
Printing technique Photogravure on luminescent paper
Perforation Line peforation, L 13½
MICHEL Nr. Burundi, Nr.464A
SCOTT Nr. Burundi, No. C95

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