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This set of three postage stamps was issued by Ecuador to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth, however the stamps were not issued until June 1966. The 10-centavos stamp shows a posterized version of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 1871…

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This postage stamp was issued by the Central African Republic as part of a series to commemorate the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix. The stamp reproduces his first major painting, Dante et Virgile aux enfers (known in English as The Barque…

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This stamp was issued by Cambodia as part of a series celebrating the 500th anniversary of the birth of the painter Raphael. The stamp features a detail from Raphael's painting The Parnassus showing the poets Dante, Homer, and Virgil. The stamp has…

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This postage stamp was issued to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix and reproduces a detail from his first major painting, Dante et Virgile aux enfers (known in English as The Barque of…

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This stamp features the statue of Dante sculpted by Enrico Pazzi and erected in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence, Italy, in 1865. The statue is distinguished by the sweeping mantle which Dante holds closed and by the eagle perched behind the poet's…

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Issued as part of a series to commemorate the turn of the millennium, this postage stamp portrays Dante's lifelong love and muse, Beatrice Portinari, against an Italian landscape with a quotation in English from the Vita nuova (19:11): "So Cupid…

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The Principality of Andorra issued this stamp in 2018 to celebrate the country’s diversity and Italian community. Designed by Jordi ­Casamajor, the stamp features a portrait of Dante surrounded by text as follows: at the top: “Principat d’Andorra…

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These two stamps are part of a set of six stamps celebrating paintings by Raphael. One stamp shows Raphael's The Parnassus and the other shows his Disputation of the Holy Sacrament. Both frescoes are in the Stanza della Segnatura (Room of the…

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This stamp is part of a set of six stamps celebrating paintings by Raphael. The stamp shows a detail from Raphael's portrait of Dante from the artist's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. Across the…

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This is the ordinance enacted by the Pontificia Commissione per lo Stato della Città del Vaticano (Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State), the legislative body of Vatican City, as published in the Italian supplement to Acta Apostolicae Sedis,…

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Vatican City issued this miniature sheet to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Raphael's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament. Dante is depicted in the fresco in the lower right quarter (circled here in green). The miniature sheet has text as…

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This miniature sheet shows Sandro Botticelli's fifteenth-century portrait now in the Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny, Switzerland. Printed by Sanfer S.R.L. (Montevideo, Uruguay).

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Miniature sheets were issued for the entire set of 35 Umm al-Quwain Divina commedia stamps but they are difficult to find.

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This miniature sheet was issued by Poste Magistrali, the postal arm of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), a sovereign, Roman Catholic order of chivalry. The set is SMOM issue number 472, "Capolavori della letteratura" (masterpieces of…

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This miniature sheet is one of an extensive series depicting "Masters of Renaissance" and their works. While there is no Dante stamp in the series, he is depicted in sculpture, with Francesco Petrarca, on the miniature sheet for the Raphael stamp.…

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Raphael's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament is printed across the bottom of this miniature sheet. Dante is depicted in the fresco near the right side just behind the standing figure in yellow robes.

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This miniature sheet celebrates the 750th anniversary of Dante's birth. The sheet contains six of the 2015 Monaco Dante stamps designed by Laure Fissore. The margin text is as follows: "2015"; "Principatu de Mùnegu" (Principality of Monaco); and…

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Designed by Thomas Giger. Printed by Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé, Haarlem, Netherlands.

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This miniature sheet shows Henry Holiday's 1884 painting Dante and Beatrice. Along the top is "750 лет со дня рождения Данте Алигьери / 750th Birth Anniversary of Dante Alighieri"; vertically, along the right side, is "Генри Холидей. Данте и Беатриче…

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The Italy miniature sheet features five stamps with adjacent labels. In the left margin are logos for the 2009 Festival Internazionale della Filatelia (International Festival of Philately) and Poste Italiane; in the right margin is a barcode and the…

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This miniature sheet commemorates the 150th anniversary of the death of the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863). The 2013 Guinean postage stamp featuring the artist's painting The Barque of Dante is surrounded by a reinterpretation of…
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