Maximum Card - Vatican City - 1965 - Stampa Filatelica

Title

Maximum Card - Vatican City - 1965 - Stampa Filatelica

Type

Maximum Card

Coverage

Vatican City

Date Issued

1965-05-18

Description

This series of maximum cards was issued by Stampa Filatelica (Golden Series, no. 104–107; series supervised by Vittorio Lo Bianco) for the Vatican City postage stamps of 1965. The first card (no. 104), like the stamp, shows Raphael's portrait of Dante from his fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. The second and third cards (no. 105–106) show scenes taken from miniatures in Codex Urbinate Latino 365, a fifteenth-century manuscript in the Vatican Library. No. 105 shows a scene from the beginning of Inferno in which Dante (accompanied by Virgil in this illustration but not in the text) is blocked by three beasts. No. 106 is fromPurgatorio and shows Dante and Virgil at the foot of Mount Purgatory. The fourth card (no. 107) echoes the stamp and shows Sandro Botticelli's illustration from Paradiso 3 of Dante and Beatrice in the heaven of the moon. The original illustration is found in a manuscript volume in the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin known as MS Hamilton 201. Each card was postmarked in Vatican City on May 18, 1965.

Extent

150 × 105 mm

Contributor

Stampa Filatelica (Italy)
Vittorio Lo Bianco
Raphael
Sandro Botticelli

Language

English
Italian