| Description : Pietro Vannucci (∼1448‐1523), called 'Perugino'
(from Perugia), was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was considered the most important master of the Umbrian School
and was Raphael's teacher. His own teachers were probably Piero della Francesca and Andrea del Verrocchio, in whose workshop
Leonardo da Vinci, among others, was trained. In 1481, he painted his most famous painting, "Christ Handing the Keys to
St. Peter", one of the works from the wall fresco cycle in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, in which Italy's most
celebrated painters of the time collaborated. The perspective depth stretching particularly impressed the people of the
time. The "Madonna and Child, St Sebastian and St John the Baptist" from 1493 is an oil painting on panel ‐
commissioned for the chapel of the church of the monastery of San Domenico in Fiesole ‐ now in the Uffizi Gallery in
Florence. The coin, designed by Maria Angela Cassol, shows the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus as a detail of this
painting. On the top left the occasion of issue "PERUGINO" is indicated in the form of an arc, to the right of it ‐ in
two lines ‐ the year of the painter's death is shown as "1523" and the year of issue as "2023". On the right, "SAN
MARINO" is written in the shape of an arc, on the left the "R" the mint mark of the Italian mint Istituto Poligrafico e
Zecca dello Stato in Rome. The initials "MAC" of the designer appear at the bottom right. |
