| Description : Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696‐1770) was one of the most
important Venetian painters of the late Baroque and Rococo periods, who particularly emphasised light and perspective. His
work includes depictions of heroic epics, histories, opera scenes, festivals of the gods and also altars, where he enriched
many of these paintings with putti and cupids. The coin designed by Claudia Momoni shows the moment when the angel
sent by God saves Hagar and Ishmael, who are lost in the desert, by pointing them to a spring. The detail comes from the
1732 painting Hagar and Ishmael, one of Tiepolo's outstanding masterpieces, which is kept in the Scuola Grande di
San Rocco, an important Venetian fraternity. It represents the counterpart of Tiepolo's Abraham and the Angels.
On the lower right is "SAN MARINO", above "TIEPOLO". On the right, the dates "1770" and "2020" indicate his year of death
and the year of issue. The letter "R" the mint mark of the Italian mint Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in
Rome is shown above, the initials "C.M." of the designer on the left. |
