| Description : Jacopo Robusti (1518‐1594), was a painter of the Italian
Renaissance and a precursor of the Baroque with his unusual perspectives of space and light. His name Il Tintoretto
("the little dyer") is derived from his father's craft. The coin designed by Luciana De Simoni shows the main motif
of his painting The Visitation of Mary, created in 1588 for the Venetian confraternity Scuola Grande di San
Rocco, the encounter between the pregnant Mary and her relative Elisabet described in the Gospel according to Luke.
Mary, crowned with roses at the hairline, bends towards Elisabet ‐ who, like her, has a halo ‐ surrounded on the
left by the leaves of a laurel tree and on the lower right by the dwarf medlar. On the upper left is the country of issue
"SAN MARINO" as well as the letter "R" the mint mark of the Italian mint Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in
Rome, below it the signet "LDS" of the coin designer. The dates "1518" and "2018" as well as the name "TINTORETTO" are
depicted on the lower right. |
