Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo Buonarroti
Catalog #
3027
Year
1964
Denomination
6k
Color
Orange-brown, gray-brown, brown
Artist
Printing method
Steel engraving combined with a deep tone print
Perforation
Harrow 11½
Issued
3,000,000
Tags
Painters
Description
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the Renaissance. To the 400th anniversary since the death. The sculpture of the "Bound captive" ("Slave"), (about 1513, Louvre, Paris) on the background of the vestibule of the Laurentian in Florence (left); Michelangelo at work on cardboard painting of the Sistine chapel.


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William Shakespeare
Catalog #
3028
Year
1964
Denomination
10k
Color
Red-brown, grey-olive
Artist
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Printing method
Steel engraving combined with a deep tone print
Perforation
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Issued
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Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Catalog #
3029
Year
1964
Denomination
12k
Color
Olive green, brown
Artist
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Printing method
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Perforation
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Issued
2,500,000
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