The 1995 Love stamps are the fourteenth to be issued by the U.S. Postal Service since 1973. The one- and two-ounce rate stamps feature the two popular cherubs included in Raphael's Renaissance masterpiece, Sistine Madonna. Raphael, born in Urbino, Italy, on April 6, 1483, was only 25 years old when called to Rome by Pope Julius II to direct the decoration of the state rooms in the Vatican Palace. At the time of Raphael's arrival, another master of classicism, Michelangelo, was painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, also in the Vatican Palace. Raphael's Sistine Madonna, one of the paintings that defined the ideal and harmonious beauty of the High Renaissance, is on display at the Gemaldegalerie in Dresden, Germany.