Christmas 2022
Dublin Core
Title
Christmas 2022
Description
The festive stamps depict Santa Claus with his well-known laugh written in letters, Santa Claus' sleigh full of presents and Rudolph lighting up the night with his red nose for the most important journey of the year, carrying presents for children all around the world during the most festive night of the year.
The stamp with a religious content, depicts the opening of a cave where the Virgin Mary is seated on the left holding the newly born Christ swaddled in a shroud inside the manger. Joseph is depicted kneeling on the right, and an angel is standing behind the manger. The natural scenery depicts the Three Wise Men and the Annunciation of the Shepherds and a star and a group of angels appear in the sky holding a scroll on which the words "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men" are inscribed.
The icon is located in the Holy Church of Saint Savvas and was painted at the hagiography workshop of the Monastery of Saint George Alamanos in the late 1950s, according to the Nazarene style and by using the oil painting technique.
The stamp with a religious content, depicts the opening of a cave where the Virgin Mary is seated on the left holding the newly born Christ swaddled in a shroud inside the manger. Joseph is depicted kneeling on the right, and an angel is standing behind the manger. The natural scenery depicts the Three Wise Men and the Annunciation of the Shepherds and a star and a group of angels appear in the sky holding a scroll on which the words "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men" are inscribed.
The icon is located in the Holy Church of Saint Savvas and was painted at the hagiography workshop of the Monastery of Saint George Alamanos in the late 1950s, according to the Nazarene style and by using the oil painting technique.
Source
Cyprus Post, Republic of Cyprus
Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία
Publisher
UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage
Digital Heritage Research Lab, Cyprus University of Technology
Date
Contributor
Designer: Stella Komninou Arakelian
Rights
Απαγορεύεται η δημοσίευση ή αναπαραγωγή, ηλεκτρονική ή άλλη χωρίς τη γραπτή συγκατάθεση του δημιουργού.
Relation
www.cypruspost.gov.cy
Format
jpg
Language
en
Type
Identifier
2022CS452, 2022CS453, 2022CS454
Coverage
35.160417, 33.346556
Files
Collection
Citation
Cyprus Post, Republic of Cyprus
and Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία, “Christmas 2022,” Αψίδα, accessed December 3, 2024, https://apsida.cut.ac.cy/items/show/49345.