Red Cross & Communications 1.9.1987

Red Cross & Communications.

Red Cross - Hans Memling 10.11.2005

Hans Memling (c. 1430 – 11 August 1494) was a German painter who moved to Flanders and worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. He spent some time in the Brussels workshop of Rogier van der Weyden, and after van der Weyden's death in 1464, Memling was made a citizen of Bruges, where he became one of the leading artists, painting both portraits and diptychs for personal devotion and several large religious works, continuing the style he learned in his youth.

Geneva Conventions and the Red Cross 30.8.1983

The 50c stamp highlights the Four Geneva Conventions, which are:-

(a)   The first Geneva Convention protects wounded and sick soldiers on land during war.

(b)   The second Geneva Convention protects wounded, sick and shipwrecked military personnel at sea during war.

(c)   The third Geneva Convention applies to prisoners of war.

(d)   The fourth Geneva Convention affords protection to civilians, including in occupied territory.

The 60c stamp is about Medical-social relief.

The 65c stamp highlights the Principles of the Red Cross.

And, the 70c stamp is for the Red Cross which is for peace.

Nicolas Mignard - Paintings "Autumn"& "Spring" - Red Cross 14.12.1968

Nicolas Mignard (1606–1668) was a French painter. He spent most of his active life in Avignon and was the older brother of Pierre Mignard, and the father of Pierre II Mignard.

Mignard’s spending most of his life in Avignon made his career somewhat overshadowed by his younger brother Pierre, who was installed in Paris. After his death, paintings by Nicolas Mignard mostly stayed in Avignon or in small cities around Avignon. During the French Revolution, as these paintings were taken over, most of them were attributed to Pierre Mignard.

His art is now rediscovered. His style is typical of the Italianate classicizing aesthetic that dominated seventeenth-century France, and obviously was very much influenced by French classical Baroque painter Poussin.

Nicolas Mignard died in 1668 in Paris.

The Royal Monastery of Brou 20.11.1976

The Royal Monastery of Brou is a religious complex located at Bourg-en-Bresse in the Ain département, central France. It is composed of monastic buildings and a church, which were built at the beginning of the 16th century by Margaret of Austria, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands. The complex was designed as a dynastic burial place in the tradition of the Burgundian Champmol and Cîteaux Abbey, and the French Saint-Denis. The church is known as the Église Saint-Nicolas-de-Tolentin de Brou in French.

These two stamps were issued as part of the Red Cross Series. The Cover has a depiction of the Nativity scene.

The church was built between 1506 and 1532 in a lavishly elaborate Flamboyant Gothic style, with some classicizing Renaissance aspects. The tall roof is covered in coloured, glazed tiles. Margaret, her second husband Philibert II, Duke of Savoy, and his mother, Margaret of Bourbon, are all buried in tombs by Conrad Meit within the church, which have avoided the destruction that most royal tombs in France have suffered.

The monastery is the property of the town of Bourg-in-Bresse, which installed the municipal art collection in the buildings in 1922. The museum presents religious statues of the 13th to 17th centuries on the ground floor, and a collection of paintings of the 16th to the 20th centuries on the upper floor.

The church and monastery have been classed as a monument historique since 1862. The buildings are in the care of the French state, and are managed by the Centre des monuments nationaux.

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Clara Barton - Founder of the American Red Cross7.9.1948

Clara Barton (1821-1912). She was the Founder of the American Red Cross. U.S. 3¢ stamp honours Clara Barton. The stamp pictures Barton and the Red Cross symbol.

Barton was born in North Oxford, Massachusetts. Her service during the American Civil War earned her the title “Angel of the Battlefield.” After touring Europe, where she learned of the International Red Cross, she returned home and started a similar organization, the American Red Cross, in 1881.

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The Cyprus Red Cross 23.2.2013

The commemorative stamp is being issued on the occasion of the recognition of the Cyprus Red Cross (C.R.C.) by the International Committee of the Red Cross as the 188th member of the International Movement  on 23/2/2012. The C.R.C. was founded in 1950 and is registered as a legal entity under Law 39 of 1967. It is the largest humanitarian organisation in Cyprus and its biggest project is the Children’s Convalescent Home in Limassol for children with serious disabilities. It offers moral and material support to the poor, the sick and the disabled, provides wheelchairs and special aid, and, since 1974 has covered the needs of the enclaved. It offers First Aid lessons, organises blood donations, helps in dealing with crises, covers the needs of migrants and organises campaigns on social, environmental, health and other issues. It provides humanitarian assistance in dealing with disasters and undertakes large projects abroad, such as building a hospital and funding a second one in Sri Lanka, constructing community clinic in Karatoula in fire-ravaged Elia in the Peloponnese, funding the construction of an emergency telephone centre in Haiti and building two ambulance centres in Gaza.

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