The subject chosen by the Philatelic and Numismatic Office for Easter this year is an image of Christ rising with open arms and an expression marked with suffer, symbolizing his passion and an undefined chaos which represents death.
published March 18th, 2013
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The Åland stamp year sets off on 15 January with the issue of a stamp focusing on the 50 anniversary of the Åland Art Museum.
published January 20th, 2013
“The work was done with my left thumb, rolled, with professional assistance, on yellow paper in the basement of police headquaters in Copenhagen .
published December 28th, 2012
Lepo Mikko (1911–1978), a graduate of the Pallas Art School in 1939, was a confirmed modernist whose vigorous creative stimulus was the atmosphere of spiritual liberation and change of the 1950s and 60s.
published November 29th, 2012
Non-professional or amateur movie is a specific type of film, in which moving images created under the “baton” cinema enthusiasts who have no formal film education and his screenplay ideas transferred to celluloid strip individually or as members of organized cinema clubs.
published October 26th, 2012
”Margarinfabrikkin” – Tórshavn Youth Centre was commissioned to design postage stamps for 2012 with the theme “Street Art”. The result was these four drawings by the two young girls, Saga Kapna and Laura Edit Tórhalsdóttir, who together call themselves “Nadedita”.
published October 19th, 2012
The 110-year old chambers of the Parliament on the latest stamp specialty of Magyar Posta.
The Parliament is one of the most beautiful public buildings in the world.
published October 18th, 2012
The Architecture stamp series depicts four museums from different periods and architectural features which exhibit and preserve pieces and collections for the general public to enjoy.
published October 18th, 2012
From the start it was evident that the series “Architecture & Mobility” should include three stamps each representing a work of art. The selection of the themes was made based on the following criteria: Each design represents a link between mobility and architecture.
published October 12th, 2012
The year 2012 marks the 70th anniversary of “Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art” (hereinafter referred to as “Talks”).
published October 4th, 2012
The Great Royal Wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaton, Nefertiti owes much of her fame to her beauty, immortalised in the 14th century BCE by her painted limestone bust.
published September 30th, 2012