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Holy Family. Virgin of milk Mengs Christmas Stamp Bahamas 1970

Holy Family. Antonio Rafael Mengs. Christmas. Michel: 314-317 Yvert: 298-301.

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SectionPhilately
MaterialPaper
ContinentAmerica
CountryBahamas
Year1970

Mengs's father (Bohemia, 1728 - 1779), a painter himself, named him after his favourite painters: Antonio Correggio and Raphael de Sanzio. He was court painter to Charles III of Spain, representing the beginning of Neoclassicism, and suggested to the king the creation of a public museum: the future Prado Museum. We do not know the location of the original work.

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Mengs's father (Bohemia, 1728 - 1779), a painter himself, named him after his favourite painters: Antonio Correggio and Raphael de Sanzio. He was court painter to Charles III of Spain, representing the beginning of Neoclassicism, and suggested to the king the creation of a public museum: the future Prado Museum. We do not know the location of the original work.