Please discover this space on the Web that is dedicated to the visual arts (painting, drawing, sculpting, pottery, tapestry, enamel) as they appear on stamps. It provides information about new issues, offers a huge free database (as a free download and also on-line), an extensive art gallery, a free Paintings and Arts on Stamps Internet Club (PASIC) membership, hints for beginners, useful links, polls, a magazine, pages dedicated to thematic collection, to postal history and to other subjects. You will also find many images, the more recent ones being of a good quality.

This site is the first non-commercial (*) and so far the most complete one as related to the topics Art on Stamps. It was firstly published on the Web in October 1996, being one of the oldest significant philatelic sites worldwide.

The webmaster has intended this site for you, a person who wishes to know more about the wonderful world of Art on Stamps, about topical philately and generally about stamps. It was created and is permanently updated by Victor Manta, a Swiss stamp collector, and a former member of the AIJP (International Association of Philatelic Journalists). You can benefit from his experience, because he is collecting stamps for a long time, being very active in this domain, especially on the Web.

In 1997 Mr. Manta founded PASIC, the Paintings and Arts on Stamps Internet Club, opened for free to all art on stamps collectors, and counting at time over 800 members from 85 countries. PASIC is affiliated since Jan. 2000 with the American Topical Association. Mr. Manta is also the founder and the president of the Philatelic Webmasters Organization .

The Art on Stamps site was awarded many times, in different countries, for example in the year 2000 by the International Philatelic Association (FIP).