Beautiful Women

A minisheet of fakes(?) from Eritrea from the work of Fritz Willis:

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There's a short note about Vera Ciriviri-Trina in this link (page 22/23). Macedonia has been issuing stamps since becoming an independent republic in 1991.

http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/infop...ition_en.pdf

Rod

You read about Vera Ciriviri-Trina on this Famous Women on stamps website

http://www2.arnes.si/~bcebul/index.htm

Yes Rod, Macedonia has its own stamps, often referred as "FYROM": "Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia", because Greece objected for the name "Macedonia", as the Greeks attribute to themselves all the ancient Hellenic inheritance.
This is, actually, a nonsense, as the Greeks considered the Macedonians of Philip II and Alexander the Great (around 350 BC) as "Barbarians", that is "Non-Hellenic", so Demosthenes (the Athenian politician said).

Anyway I admire very much Katharine Hepburn and like the erotism of Fitz Willis paintings on the Eritrea sheet.

Since we've ventured into art, one of my favourite paintings by one of my favourite painters, F.H. Varley. Vera.
I don't know if it's Vera herself or Varley's rendering of her, but every time I visit Ottawa, I go to the National Gallery where she lives, and stare at her for ages.
She hasn't filed a restraining order yet, so I'll keep it up.

Democratic people's Republic of Korea. (These images - no likeness what-so-ever)

Jeanne-Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard Récamier (1777-1849), known as Juliette, was a French society leader whose salon drew Parisians from the leading literary and political circles of the early 19th century. Here is an image of a stamp depicting Madame Récamier, designed by Paul-Pierre Lemagny (1905-1977) after a portrait (1802) by French painter François Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard (1770-1837), engraved by Charles Mazelin, and issued by France on December 7, 1950, Scott No. 641, Y&T No. 875. This stamp won the Grand Prix de l'Art philatélique 1950 for Lemagny and Mazelin. Also, here is an image of François Gérard's painting of this famous beauty.

- nethryk

glad to see this thread revived.
Soaked Marilyn this weekend, she gave in reluctantly.
She'll be headed for my 'autograph' collection, whether she likes it or not.

I am dumbstruck. Quite the sparkle in her eye.

Garbo looks like an interesting..uuum person !

Found this in a little packet I was looking through yesterday

Net, what a beautiful stamp and simply stunning portrait.
Wouldn't you have loved to have been a fly on Madame's salon wall?!

I was mounting some Hawaiian stamps today, and was struck by this portrait of Princess Kamamalu on this 1866 stamp.



Here's a wikipedia bio of Princess Victoria Kamamalu.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor...am%C4%81malu

An interesting story of a short life. I was struck by her soft beauty and the apparent sadness in her gaze. I thought she belonged on this thread of beautiful women.

Happy Birthday to world-renowned Czech theater actress Hana Kvapilová (1860-1907)! Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Kvapilová, designed by Czech artist Max Švabinský (1873-1962), engraved by Jindra Schmidt, and issued by Czechoslovakia on July 15, 1960 to commemorate the actress's birth centenary, Scott No. 999, plus an image of a photographic portrait (c. 1880s) of Hana Kvapilová by Czech photographer Jan Tomáš (1841-1912).

- nethryk

Another beauty for the topic.