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Music in painting (2021)

On sale	Yes
Face value	Complete set 2,25 € ; Souvenir sheet 5,40 €
Stamp description	the figurative arts, particularly painting, are an essential testimony to the evolution through the centuries of music and the musical instruments producing it. From the Peace Panel in the Standard of Ur, dating back to 2500 BC, to our days, iconographic sources have represented the sacred and social role of music, providing at the same time a testimony to the uses and the socio-cultural conditions of the times. Series: two stamps depicting: € 1.10: School of Fontainebleau: Musicians (det. of Parnassos), Musée Granet. Aix-en-Provence ©2021. De Agostini Picture Library/Scala, Florence. € 1.15: Rembrandt van Rijn: Allegory of Music, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam ©2021. Photo Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Scala, Florence. Souvenir sheet: Carlo Saraceni: Saint Cecilia. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Rome ©2021. Photo Scala, Florence – courtesy of Ministero Beni e Attività Culturali e del Turismo. On stamp: € 5.40: detail of Saint Cecilia and the angel. On souvenir sheet: the painting in its entirety.
Date of issue	20 September 2021.
Face values	two stamps (€ 1.10 and € 1.15) for a total of € 2.25 ; souvenir sheet: one € 5.40 stamp.
Size	40 x 52 mm ; souvenir sheet: 52 x 40 mm.
Perforation	13 x 13.
Souvenir sheet size	120 x 170 mm.
Print run	five thousand complete set and three thousand numbered souvenir sheets.
Stamp sheet	nine stamps.
Printed by	offset. Cartor Security Printing, La Loupe, Francia.