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The European Stamp of the Year
At the 24th International Postal Stamps Fair in Essen, Germany, May 8th -
10th, 2014 a souvenir sheet issued by Germany was awarded the first place, this after having won the same place at a similar competition in its own country. The awarded S/S shows a painting, one that is considered by many an apogee of the Western art, the Sistine Madonna, by the Italian painter Raphael. More information can be found on my new page: http://www.artonstamps.org/Countries...na-awarded.htm -- Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Art on Stamps: http://artonstamps.org/ Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org/ Romania by Stamps: http://marci-postale.com/ Communism on Stamps: http://reds-on.postalstamps.biz/ Spanish North Africa: http://www.sna-on.postalstamps.biz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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The European Stamp of the Year
On 8/29/2014 8:28 PM, Victor Manta wrote:
At the 24th International Postal Stamps Fair in Essen, Germany, May 8th - 10th, 2014 a souvenir sheet issued by Germany was awarded the first place, this after having won the same place at a similar competition in its own country. The awarded S/S shows a painting, one that is considered by many an apogee of the Western art, the Sistine Madonna, by the Italian painter Raphael. More information can be found on my new page: http://www.artonstamps.org/Countries...na-awarded.htm Informative and interesting as always, but I noticed this: http://www.artonstamps.org/Countries...ine-colors.htm was later donated by the monks to Augustus III of Saxony. Source: Wikipedia . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Madonna That page actually says "In 1754, Augustus III of Poland purchased the painting for 110,000 – 120,000 francs, whereupon it was relocated to Dresden and achieved new prominence;[11][12][13] this was to remain the highest price paid for any painting for many decades. " You might add a link to the picture file page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:R..._196_cm%29.jpg which in turn has a link to a nice large image (3,028 × 4,151 pixels, file size: 15.2 MB) which gives one about as good a view as one might get in the gallery. The colors in these images, even the small one, are better than the top left (Dresden) image on your page, which does not do the painting justice at all. So I suggest you substitute the same size .jpg from Wikipedia |
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The European Stamp of the Year
"Terry Reedy" wrote in message
... http://www.artonstamps.org/Countries...na-awarded.htm Informative and interesting as always, but I noticed this: http://www.artonstamps.org/Countries...ine-colors.htm was later donated by the monks to Augustus III of Saxony. Source: Wikipedia . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Madonna That page actually says "In 1754, Augustus III of Poland purchased the painting for 110,000 – 120,000 francs, whereupon it was relocated to Dresden and achieved new prominence;[11][12][13] this was to remain the highest price paid for any painting for many decades. " Thanks, Terry! On my page from 2009 I quoted from the then text of Wikipedia. Meanwhile it changed, and for this reason I changed it on my page too . You might add a link to the picture file page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:R..._196_cm%29.jpg which in turn has a link to a nice large image (3,028 × 4,151 pixels, file size: 15.2 MB) which gives one about as good a view as one might get in the gallery. The colors in these images, even the small one, are better than the top left (Dresden) image on your page, which does not do the painting justice at all. So I suggest you substitute the same size .jpg from Wikipedia Again a similar type of problem. On my page: http://www.artonstamps.org/Countries...ine-colors.htm from 2009 I used the most actual image of the painting that I found on Wikipedia. It changed (apparently in 2012) because, and this is an assumption, at a certain point the painting was restored, like many other paintings and frescoes of old masters. The colors became more vivid, what shocked many art fans. Because you published papers on art conservation (?) maybe you can help me on the subject of the presumed restoration of Sistine Madonna. TIA. For my comparison with older stamps, I left in place, on my updated page, the image of the un-restored painting but I added for completeness the new image. -- Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Art on Stamps: http://artonstamps.org/ Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org/ Romania by Stamps: http://marci-postale.com/ Communism on Stamps: http://reds-on.postalstamps.biz/ Spanish North Africa: http://www.sna-on.postalstamps.biz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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The European Stamp of the Year
On 9/10/2014 12:07 PM, Victor Manta wrote:
"Terry Reedy" wrote in message ... http://www.artonstamps.org/Countries...na-awarded.htm Informative and interesting as always, but I noticed this: http://www.artonstamps.org/Countries...ine-colors.htm was later donated by the monks to Augustus III of Saxony. Source: Wikipedia . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Madonna That page actually says "In 1754, Augustus III of Poland purchased the painting for 110,000 – 120,000 francs, whereupon it was relocated to Dresden and achieved new prominence;[11][12][13] this was to remain the highest price paid for any painting for many decades. " Thanks, Terry! On my page from 2009 I quoted from the then text of Wikipedia. Meanwhile it changed, and for this reason I changed it on my page too . You might add a link to the picture file page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:R..._196_cm%29.jpg which in turn has a link to a nice large image (3,028 × 4,151 pixels, file size: 15.2 MB) which gives one about as good a view as one might get in the gallery. The colors in these images, even the small one, are better than the top left (Dresden) image on your page, which does not do the painting justice at all. So I suggest you substitute the same size .jpg from Wikipedia Again a similar type of problem. On my page: http://www.artonstamps.org/Countries...ine-colors.htm from 2009 I used the most actual image of the painting that I found on Wikipedia. It changed (apparently in 2012) because, and this is an assumption, at a certain point the painting was restored, like many other paintings and frescoes of old masters. The colors became more vivid, what shocked many art fans. Because you published papers on art conservation (?) As a statistician ;-) My wife does technical analysis of art objects. maybe you can help me on the subject of the presumed restoration of Sistine Madonna. We have no particular knowledge. However, I used google translate on "sistine madonna raphael restoration" to get the German "Sixtinische Madonna raphel Restaurierung". Searching for that gave as first hit a May 2012 German news article that was pretty obviously a discussion of its restoration. http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleto...-11767213.html translate.google.com gives a slightly mangled English version of "As the Sistine Madonna was confronted for the Pope's visit last year with the Madonna di Foligno, she made no good impression. The arrived from the Vatican Raphael Madonna, almost simultaneously painted like the Sistine Chapel, was recently restored and looked in their motley colors, as if she had just left the studio of the painter genius. The Sistine Chapel, however we noticed suddenly how she had aged. What to do? Should they also rejuvenate cosmetically and remove their layers of varnish? The Dresden restorers decided against a fashionable lifting, and their conservatism deserves respect. Restorations without risk does not exist. Maintaining the old varnish layer meant, of course, to take the slightly grizzled appearance of the Sistine Chapel in purchasing. Art dealers call graphs that look like this, "not fresh" - not so fresh was now the Sistine Chapel." When another (restored) Raphael Madonna was exhibited next to the Dresden version, the latter looked pretty bad. So Dresden restorers cleaned it up, but did not remove all old varnish. P2:"But what a surprise: Whoever comes to Dresden, where the five hundredth birthday is celebrated by Germany's most famous paintings with intelligent exhibition might think the Sistine Chapel but had been freshened up a bit, so radiant she looks suddenly, not colorful but bright. but it was not restored, the rejuvenation came about quite naturally, she owes the gift you made ​​for her five hundredth birthday: the new framework including new glazing; the last frame also contained greenish-gray tones, even in the glazing, it is said, is a greenish tone was." P3 goes on about the history of the painting and the 500 year anniversary book. For my comparison with older stamps, I left in place, on my updated page, the image of the un-restored painting but I added for completeness the new image. |
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The European Stamp of the Year
"Terry Reedy" wrote in message
... On 9/10/2014 12:07 PM, Victor Manta wrote: Again a similar type of problem. On my page: http://www.artonstamps.org/Countries...ine-colors.htm maybe you can help me on the subject of the presumed restoration of Sistine Madonna. We have no particular knowledge. However, I used google translate on "sistine madonna raphael restoration" to get the German "Sixtinische Madonna raphel Restaurierung". Searching for that gave as first hit a May 2012 German news article that was pretty obviously a discussion of its restoration. http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleto...-11767213.html translate.google.com gives a slightly mangled English version of "As the Sistine Madonna was confronted for the Pope's visit last year with the Madonna di Foligno, she made no good impression. The arrived from the Vatican Raphael Madonna, almost simultaneously painted like the Sistine Chapel, was recently restored and looked in their motley colors, as if she had just left the studio of the painter genius. The Sistine Chapel, however we noticed suddenly how she had aged. What to do? Should they also rejuvenate cosmetically and remove their layers of varnish? The Dresden restorers decided against a fashionable lifting, and their conservatism deserves respect. Restorations without risk does not exist. Maintaining the old varnish layer meant, of course, to take the slightly grizzled appearance of the Sistine Chapel in purchasing. Art dealers call graphs that look like this, "not fresh" - not so fresh was now the Sistine Chapel." When another (restored) Raphael Madonna was exhibited next to the Dresden version, the latter looked pretty bad. So Dresden restorers cleaned it up, but did not remove all old varnish. Thank you very much Terry! The page was very helpful, and even more to me because I'm fluent in German. Therefore I improved the pages: http://www.artonstamps.org/Countries...na-awarded.htm http://www.artonstamps.org/Countries...ine-colors.htm and I gave you on them the credits that you fully deserve. Many thanks again, and I hope to meet you soon again on this rather depopulated newsgroup. -- Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Art on Stamps: http://artonstamps.org/ Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org/ Romania by Stamps: http://marci-postale.com/ Communism on Stamps: http://reds-on.postalstamps.biz/ Spanish North Africa: http://www.sna-on.postalstamps.biz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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