{"product_id":"forever-stamps-2018-madonna-and-child-christmas-mail-first-class-postage-19-99-149-99-this-forever-stamp-features-a-detail-of","title":"Madonna and Child 2018 Forever Stamps — Bachiacca Detail, $19.99–$149.99, Booklet of 20","description":"\u003ch2\u003eIssue facts\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssue Date: October 3, 2018\u003cbr\u003eFirst Day City: Santa Fe, NM\u003cbr\u003ePrinted by: Banknote Corporation of America\u003cbr\u003ePrinting Method: Offset, Microprint\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Double-sided booklet of 20\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe painter\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBachiacca (1494–1557), born Francesco d'Ubertino Verdi, came from a family of artists and apprenticed under Pietro Perugino — Raphael's teacher, who later brought him into the court of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe was one of the artists who pushed Italian Renaissance painting toward Mannerism, with its stretched proportions and deliberately unreal elegance. What distinguished him from his contemporaries was how he worked: rather than basing pictures on other people's compositions, as was common, he absorbed Italian, German and Netherlandish sources and merged them into something of his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe flowers in this painting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBachiacca was known for painting plants and animals with unusual precision, and in the \u003cem\u003eMadonna and Child\u003c\/em\u003e the botany is deliberate. The infant Jesus holds a sprig of jasmine, which blooms in May — the month of Mary. Cornflower, rose and sweetbriar appear elsewhere in the picture, each standing for Jesus or for Mary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Forever Stamp Center","offers":[{"title":"100 Stamps (5 Books)","offer_id":47100616605895,"sku":"ST18-A8-5","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300 Stamps (15 Books)","offer_id":47100616638663,"sku":"ST18-A8-15","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500 Stamps (25 Books)","offer_id":47100616671431,"sku":"ST18-A8-25","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"1000 Stamps (50 Books)","offer_id":47100616704199,"sku":"ST18-A8-50","price":149.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5000 Stamps (250 Books)","offer_id":47100616736967,"sku":"ST18-A8-250","price":699.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/6250\/4647\/files\/madonna-and-child-2018-forever-stamps-main-scaled-1-1-800x600_89bd8566-6b80-4c07-873a-ab625c54c6e8.jpg?v=1788604643","url":"https:\/\/www.foreverstampcenter.com\/products\/forever-stamps-2018-madonna-and-child-christmas-mail-first-class-postage-19-99-149-99-this-forever-stamp-features-a-detail-of","provider":"center","version":"1.0","type":"link"}