Florentine Madonna and Child Christmas Forever First Class Postage Stamps

Celebrate the holiday season with the Florentine Madonna and Child Forever Stamp. Featuring a detail from a 15th-century tempera-on-panel painting, the artwork shows the Virgin Mary in a red and blue robe, gently resting her hand on the haloed Christ Child. Behind them, pink and white roses bloom against a blue sky. Created around 1470 by an anonymous artist known as a follower of Fra Filippo Lippi and Pesellino, the original painting is part of the Widener Collection at the National Gallery of Art. Art directed by William J. Gicker, this elegant stamp is issued in booklets of 20 and is always valid for First-Class Mail (1 oz).