Austrian postal issue features icon from Lviv gallery (01/03/99)

Austrian postal issue features icon from Lviv gallery

Christmas 1998, an official cover and cancellation published by the Ukrainian Stamp Collectors' Club of Austria, pictures the icon "Adoration of the Kings" created in 1520 by an unnamed artist from Utrecht. The icon is the central portion of a triptych that today is part of the collection at the Lviv Picture Gallery, which includes more than 53,000 works of fine and decorative arts by European and Ukrainian masters of the 14th through 20th centuries. The depiction is by Lviv artist Ivan Turetskyi, while the cover design is by Erhard Steinhagen of Vienna.

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