| Description : Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483‐1520) was a painter of
the Italian High Renaissance, active in Florence and at the papal court in Rome and after the death of Donato Bramante in
1514, as architect construction manager of St. Peter's Basilica. Raphael became famous mainly as a painter for his
harmonious and well‐balanced compositions and lovely Madonna pictures. The coin motif shows a self‐portrait
painted in 1511, a detail of the fresco The School of Athens in the Stanza Della Segnatura (Room of the Signatura)
which is situated in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican City. On the right of the motif the coin designer, Daniela
Longo has depicted the two angels from the painting Sistine Madonna (today in the galery Alte Meister in Dresden)
painted in 1513 ⁄ 1514. To the upper right are the words "RAFFAELLO SANZIO", below it the year of his death,
"1520" and the year of issue "2020". The issuing country "CITTÁ DEL VATICANO" (Vatican City) is below the angels
together with the initial "R" the mint mark of the Italian mint Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome.
At the bottom of the motif are the designer's logo "D.LONGO" and the initials "SP INC." (INC. = Incisore / engraver)
of the engraver Silvia Petrassi. |
