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The National
Gallery in Prague has
a beautiful collection of works of greatest foreign artists, among
them Hals, Brueghel, Rubens, El Greco, Durer, Utamaro, van Gogh and
many, many others. About 800,000 visitors are attracted year after
year by the roughly 400,000 exhibits of this wonderful gallery.
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I have selected for you some of paintings, those that can be considered as the most famous and the most precious of the Prague collection.
Tip: Point on the stamps with the mouse index for more information about the works of art displayed and about the stamps.|
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Many extremely talented engravers, like Milos Ondracek, L. Jirka, Jindra Schmidt, Josef Hercik, B. Housa, Jiri Svengsbir, Vaclav Fajt have created wonderful works of art and deserve our full esteem and reconnaissance. Take once a look at these stamps (not at scans :) armed with a good magnifying glass and I am quite sure that you will be enchanted.
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Because the stamps are engraved, it is very difficult to obtain good scans of them, without to save them in big files. The compromise that I have found between the files sizes and the quality of images is acceptable, I hope. The original stamps are much nicer and with much more subtle colors and shades than their images on this page.
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May I recommend you to collect these wonderful stamps. At time most of them aren't expensive and are quite available. I'm convinced that they will bring a note of exquisite taste to your precious stamp collection and will delight not only you, but also all visitors of your art gallery on stamps.
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Czech Stamps Artists (in German and English), the reference for the Czechoslovakian art stamps, by the PASIC member Gerhard Batz.
| Published: 3/23/2000.
Revised:
08/29/04. Copyright © 2000 - 2004 by Victor Manta, Switzerland. All rights reserved worldwide. |
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