Vatican stamp designers had the supreme test of their creativity in 2005, when PostEurop announced that its member nations had chosen “Gastronomy” as the common theme. Having no distinctive cuisine of its own, the Vatican issued €0.60 and €0.80 stamps showing fishes painted on ceramic by Pablo Picasso. Picasso worked with ceramics around 1946 when he asked Georges and Suzanne Ramie, who ran the Madoura pottery works, if he might study with them. Eventually he created more than 3,500 clay sculptures featuring everything from fishes to bullfights, birds and other Mediterranean- inspired subjects.
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