{"id":51223,"date":"2014-08-31T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/08\/31\/the-vatican-marks-the-400th-anniversary-of-el-greco-s-death-with-a-unique-stamp\/"},"modified":"2014-08-31T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T07:00:00","slug":"the-vatican-marks-the-400th-anniversary-of-el-greco-s-death-with-a-unique-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/08\/31\/the-vatican-marks-the-400th-anniversary-of-el-greco-s-death-with-a-unique-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vatican marks the 400th anniversary of El Greco's death with a unique stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's been 400 years since the painter Dom\u00e9nikos Theotok\u00f3poulos, commonly known as 'El Greco', passed away. His stylized representations and vivid colors left a mark in the world of art, which commemorates the anniversary of his death.<\/p>\n<p>The Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican will release a commemorative stamp. It features a portrait of the Greek artist, who was very close to the Popes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MAURO OLIVIERI<br \/>\nDirector, Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican<br \/>\n'The portrait that appears on the stamp, which is a beautiful face of Christ, is in the Apostolic Palace, in the papal apartments. Although Pope Francis doesn't live there, he receives important guests there and holds international meetings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No one knows how the 40 centimeter canvas ended up in the Pope's private apartments.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe director of the office recalled that he discovered the painting by chance while waiting for an audience with Pope Francis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What is certain is that it is a genuine painting by the artist from Crete.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MAURO OLIVIERI<br \/>\nDirector, Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican<br \/>\n'Taking the opportunity for the fourth centenary of his death, we decided to use this painting because it shows the richness, as well as an unknown reality of the Vatican.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>El Greco isn't the only famous person that will be celebrated this year. A series of stamps commemorating the 500th anniversary of the death of the Italian architect Bramante, as well as the 1200th anniversary of Charlemagne's death will be released.<\/p>\n<p>PM\/JAE<br \/>\nAA<br \/>\nFA<br \/>\n-PR<br \/>\nUp:PM<br \/>\n#Art\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 31, 2014. ;It is a replica of a painting by the artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":30326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/pi0gYu4Qwps","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bgrecofrancobolliint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}