{"id":24237,"date":"2018-09-08T07:58:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T12:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=24237"},"modified":"2018-09-08T07:58:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T12:58:22","slug":"postal-service-dedicating-madonna-and-child-forever-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/09\/08\/postal-service-dedicating-madonna-and-child-forever-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service Dedicating Madonna and Child Forever Stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What:<\/strong><\/td>\nFirst-day-of-issue dedication ceremony for the Madonna and Child by Bachiacca Forever stamps. Bachiacca was known as an Italian Renaissance painter. His work still vividly evokes the timeless traditions of Christmas. News of the stamp is being shared on social media using the hashtags\u00a0#ReligiousStamps and #ChristmasStamps<\/em><\/strong>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Who:<\/strong><\/td>\nKelly M. Sigmon, Vice President, Customer Experience, U.S. Postal Service
\nMary-Anne Penner, Director, Stamp Services, U.S. Postal Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
When:<\/strong><\/td>\nWednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, 9:30 a.m., Mountain Daylight Time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Where:<\/strong><\/td>\nLoretto Chapel
\n207 Old Santa Fe Trail
\nSanta Fe, NM 87501<\/p>\n

Followers of the U.S. Postal Service\u2019s Facebook page can view the ceremony live at\u00a0facebook.com\/USPS<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Background:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nFive centuries ago, Francesco d\u2019Ubertino Verdi (1494\u20131557), the Italian Renaissance painter known as Bachiacca, proved to be a versatile and popular Florentine artist. This Christmas stamp features a detail of Bachiacca\u2019s oil-and-gold-on-panel painting \u201cMadonna and Child\u201d,<\/em>\u00a0which dates from the early 1520s, showing the Christ child clutching a bouquet of jasmine, a symbol of divine love, alongside the Virgin Mary\u2019s profile, left shoulder and right hand.<\/p>\n

This painting is part of the Jack and Belle Linsky Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. William J. Gicker served as art director for this stamp, and Greg Breeding was the designer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Customers may purchase stamps and other philatelic products through the Postal Store at\u00a0usps.com\/shop<\/em><\/a>, by calling 800-STAMP24 (800-782-6724), by mail through\u00a0USA Philatelic<\/em>, or at Post Office locations nationwide. Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1-ounce price. Information on ordering first-day-of-issue postmarks and covers is at\u00a0usps.com\/shop<\/em><\/a>\u00a0under \u201cCollectors.\u201d A video of the ceremony will be available on\u00a0Facebook.com\/usps<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. This ceremony is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What: First-day-of-issue dedication ceremony for the Madonna and Child by Bachiacca Forever stamps. Bachiacca was known as an Italian Renaissance painter. His work still vividly evokes the timeless traditions of Christmas. News of the stamp is being shared on social media using the hashtags\u00a0#ReligiousStamps and #ChristmasStamps. Who: Kelly M. Sigmon, Vice President, Customer Experience, U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24238,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24237\/revisions\/24238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}