| Description : Giotto di Bondone (1267‐1337) was a Florentine painter
and architect of the late Middle Ages whose work, captivating in its naturalness and spatiality, was groundbreaking for the
Italian Renaissance (Rinascimento). The fresco cycle in the Cappella degli Scrovegni all' Arena in Padua, painted
between 1304 and 1306, is considered his main work. As the leading master builder, he designed the bell tower of Florence
Cathedral. The coin, designed by Luciana de Simoni, shows on the left side in vertical arrangement the dates
"1267 ✵ 2017" and the name "GIOTTO" the Campanile di Giotto, the name of the issuing country "SAN
MARINO". The right side of the pill is filled with a portrait of Giotto by Paolo Uccello (1397‐1475), now in the
Louvre in Paris. At the bottom is the letter "R" the mint mark of the Italian mint Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello
Stato in Rome and on the right the designer's signet "LDS". |
