Italy 1953 Luca Signorelli
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- Edition : "Poste Italiane S.p.A."; commemorative stamps of the issue "Exhibition to Luca Signorelli in Cortona and Florence"; meant is the Italian painter of the Renaissance, 1450-1523; He is seen as master of the so-called "Florentine School"; This exhibition took place in 1953 in Cortona (Prov Arezzo, Tuscany) and Florence.; issue of 1 stamp
- Catalogue number: Michel: No. 898; Yvert et Tellier: No. 662; Scott: No. 639
- Issue Date : 13 August 1953
- Color : brown/green
- Watermark : Italy No. 3-III ( "Routa SA" = winged weel with wing left to upon)
- Postage Validity : to 30 June 1954
- Designed by : Vittorio Grassi (1878-1958)
- Printed by : "IPS Officina Carte Valori", Rome ("IPS" = "Istituto Poligrafico di Stato")
- Print Process : rotogravure (photogravure)
- Perforation : block perforation, B 14¼ : 14
- Stamp Size : (printed area of a single stamp without signature line): 21.0 x 37.0 mm or
- Print Run : 7,800,000 in sheets à 50 stamps
Commemorative stamp of the issue "Exhibition to Luca Signorelli in Cortona and Florence:
The stamp motive shows a selfportrait of Luca Signorelli as detail from a fresco in the "San Brizio Chapel" at Orvieto (Tuscany). The other figure on the depicted detail is Fra Angelico. Luca Signorelli was a pupil of Piero della Francesca and worked later with at the decoration of the Sixtine Chapel in Rome. L.Signorelli is seen as a master of the Italian Renaissance and there as representant of the so-called "Florentine School".
