| Description : Albrecht Dürer (1471‐1528) was a German painter,
graphic artist, mathematician and art theorist. With his paintings, drawings, copperplate engravings and woodcuts, he is
one of the outstanding representatives of the Renaissance. The coin designed by Valerio de Seta
shows Dürer's painting Mary with Child, created in 1526, today in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The pear held
in Mary's left hand can be interpreted as a symbol of love because of its sweetness. Dürer's monogram, a large "A"
with an underpinned "D", is depicted in the upper right. Dürer's year of birth and the year of issue are indicated
below with "1471‐2021", on the right is "DÜRER" as the occasion of issue, on the left "SAN MARINO" and next to it
the "R" the mint mark of the Italian mint Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome. The designer's logo
"VdS" is shown at the bottom right. |
