San Marino

2018

Commemorative coin

500th anniversary of the birth of Tintoretto

Official Journal of the European Union

The centre of the coin depicts a detail from Tintoretto’s painting ‘The Visitation’ (the embrace between the Virgin Mary and Elizabeth), and the dates ‘1518-2018’; at the edge: ‘SAN MARINO’ written above, and ‘Tintoretto’ below; on the left are the initials of the artist Luciana de Simoni ‘LDS’ and the letter ‘R’ identifying the Mint of Rome. The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.

Additional information

Jacopo Robusti (1518-1594), was a painter of the Italian Renaissance and with his unusual perspectives of space and light a forerunner of the Baroque. His name Il Tintoretto ("the little dyer") is derived from his father's craft. The coin depicts the main motif of his painting "The Visitation of the Virgin Mary", created in 1588 for the Venetian brotherhood Scuola Gande di San Rocco, the encounter between the pregnant Mary and her relative Elizabeth, described in the Gospel according to Luke. Mary, crowned with roses at her hairline, bends down to Elizabeth, also wearing a halo, surrounded on the left by the leaves of a laurel tree and on the lower right by medlars.

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