| Description : Luca Signorelli (∼1450‐1523), also called Luca da
Cortona after his birthplace, was an Italian Renaissance painter and principal master of the Florentine School. As a pupil
of Piero della Francesca in Arezzo, he learned especially perspective and nude painting, in which his detailed anatomical
knowledge is visible. From 1482 to 1484 he executed a fresco on the story of the biblical Moses in the Sistine Chapel in
Rome. Between 1499 and 1502 he painted, among others, the fresco cycles 'Apocalypse' and 'Last Judgement' in the Chapel of
the Madonna di San Brizio in Orvieto Cathedral. The latter depicts the elect being called to heaven and the damned being
led to hell. This work influenced Michelangelo's Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel. The coin motif, designed by
Marta Bonifacio, shows an angel from the fresco "The Chosen in Paradise". At the bottom left is an arched
"SIGNORELLI" as the occasion of issue and at the top "1523‐2023" as the year of the painter's death and the year of
issue. On the left is the country of issue "SAN MARINO" and on the left the "R" the mint mark of the Italian mint
Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome. The designer's initials "MB" are visible at the bottom. |
