What's wrong with "Merry Christmas"?

susanmcgee48176 Schlobin at aol.com
Wed Jan 2 00:39:21 UTC 2008


> 
> They would never have a Pieta for Christmas. That relates to Good
> Friday, which is not a day for celebration (though it's depicted in
> Catholic art). The religious Christmas stamp is always a Madonna and
> child (or perhaps a Nativity scene?). 

You're correct. The Christmas stamp is a Madonna and child.
For 2006
Christmas: Chacón Madonna and Child with Bird
For the Holidays, the "Christmas: Chacón Madonna and Child with Bird," 
stamp features an oil-on-canvas with gold details. Dating from around 
1765, the painting is attributed to Ignacio Chacón — an artist active 
from 1745 to 1775 in Cuzco, Peru. It is now part of the Engracia and 
Frank Barrows Freyer Collection of Peruvian colonial art at the Denver 
Art Museum.

Then I must have read you incorrectly when you stated that there were 
no longer Christmas stamps.

Susan





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