Holiday Stamp Features Botticelli Painting
A A new 42-cent 2008 U. S. Postal Service Christmas stamp features a detail from a work by the Italian master Sandro Botticelli, entitled Virgin and Child with the Young John the Baptist, from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Visitors may see the actual painting in a special installation near the Reid Gallery of Italian Baroque art (the round painting in the image above). Admission to the museum is free.