San Marino

2019

Commemorative coin

550th anniversary of the death of Filippo Lippi

Official Journal of the European Union

The centre of the coin features the Madonna and Child, a detail from Filippo Lippi’s ‘Madonna and Child with Two Angels’; above are the inscriptions ‘SAN MARINO’ and ‘FILIPPO LIPPI’ and on the left are the year ‘1469’ and the letter ‘R’ identifying the Mint of Rome. On the bottom left are the initials of the artist Maria Angela Cassol ‘M.A.C.’, and in the centre the year ‘2019’. The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European f lag.

Additional information

Filippo Lippi (1406-1469) was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance. The coin depicts a detail of his painting "Madonna with Child and Two Angels", painted in 1465 and now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Lippi was a monk for many years and met the Dominican novice Lucrezia Buti (*1435) when she posed for a painting of the Virgin Mary. During a procession in honour of the Holy Belt in Prato he kidnapped her and she gave birth to a son in 1457 and a daughter in 1465. She is also said to be depicted in the above painting.

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