Gentlemen, May I direct your attention to the following four stamps. I have no idea where these are from or what they were attached to. Do you have any ideas??
The purple one in the middle is a Swiss label that was part of a "triptych", two stamps and a label in-between. The stamps were issued when the Gotthard tunnel in Switzerland commemorated it's 100 year opening in 1982. The bottom one I believe is a real French stamp, very recent.
As I recall from art history class (50 years ago) the one on the top row at left depicts a part of Italian Renaissance artist Masaccio's "Il Espolio" (Expulsion from the Garden of Eden).
Sorry, I don't recognize the Adam and Eve artist...although that might also be a Masaccio.
Bookbindrbob is correct. The top left stamp depicts Massaccio's(1401-1428) "Expulsion of Adam and Eve from his fresco in the Brancacci chapel in the church of Santa Maria Del Carmine in Florence Italy. By the way, the fig leaves were a later addition, removed when the painting was cleaned. The stamp on the top right stylistically looks like it is from an early Northern Renaissance artist.
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Posted 05/04/2016 7:21 pm
