Italy

2016

Commemorative coin

550th Anniversary of the death of Donatello

Official Journal of the European Union

Head of the David by Donatello (detail of the bronze sculpture kept in Florence, National Museum of Bargello): on the left the logo of the Italian Republic ‘RI’; below on two lines, ‘1466’ and ‘2016’; on the right ‘C.M.’, the initials of the author Claudia Momoni; below ‘DONATELLO’. The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.

Additional information

The coin shows in profile the face of the bronze statue of David created around 1440 by the Italian sculptor of the Florentine Renaissance for Cosimo de' Medici, now in the Bargello Museum in Florence. David is youthful, radiating harmonious grace and playful lightness, depicted with a laurel-wreathed hat, placing his foot playfully on the head of Goliat.

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