The 1995 Madonna and Child stamp design is from an image based on the Enthroned Madonna and Child by the Florentine artist Giotto de Bondone. Painted during the early fourteenth century in the later part of Giotto's career, the Enthroned Madonna and Child was the central part of a five-section polyptych, or altarpiece, in several panels. Other panels in the polyptych include Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Stephen, Saint Lawrence, and a missing panel thought by art historians to perhaps represent Saint Francis, patron saint of Santa Croce, Florence. In the Enthroned Madonna and Child painting, the infant Christ grasps his mother's index finger in a typically babylike way as he symbolically reaches for the white rose she holds. Giotto (c. 1266-1337) created a revolution in painting, setting Italian Renaissance art on the course it would follow for centuries. He abandoned the two-dimensional style of his Italian predecessors by painting convincing human figures that resembled sculptured forms placed within an illusion of space.