Italian Mint issued a commemorative coin, which is dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the death of the famous Italian architect Donato Bromante, who became the founder and one of the most prominent representatives of Renaissance architecture.
Donato Bramante (ital.Donato (Donnino) di Pascuccio di Antonio detto il Bramante; 1444 Fermignano - April 11, 1514, Rome) - the founder and the largest representative of the architecture of the High Renaissance. His most famous work is the main temple of Western Christianity - St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Donato Bramante was born in Monte Asdrualdo (now a Fermignano). Youth he spent in Urbino, where he was influenced by painters Piero della Francesca and Luciano Laurana. Started out as a painter. In 1476 he was invited as such in the court of the Duke of Milan Lodovico Moro, where he met with Leonardo da Vinci. Milan Bramante period lasted for twenty years. He built an altar of the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Since 1499, after the capture of Milan by French troops moved to Rome. When Pope Julius II was the main architect of the Pope; from 1503 conducted on behalf of Julius II extensive work in the Vatican (the courtyard of San Damaso courtyard and Belvedere). Designed and began to build the main church of Rome - the Cathedral of St.. Peter in the Vatican (from 1505) and managed to build a temple to the height of the arches. Creativity Bramante - one of the vertices of Renaissance architecture. In the complex there are two Vatican Palace built by Bramante - yards Belvedere (1503-1545) and San Damaso (c. 1510). Other outstanding works of Bramante - Tempetto round temple courtyard of the Monastery of San Pietro in Montorio (1502), the patio of the church Santa Maria della Pace and the facade of the Palazzo Kanchelleriya (1499-1511), one of the finest Renaissance palaces in Rome .
The obverse of the coin features a bust of Bramante looking vlevo.Sverhu polkurgom inscription Republic of Italy (country issuer coins). Below finely minted coin designer's name.
On the reverse is engraved in the center of the temple of San Pietro in Montorio in Rome, the most striking architectural work. Top semicircular inscription: Bramante (name of the architect), the left and right of the image the church denomination of the coin - 5 euros. Under it the ornament is located, is an element of sex in the temple, also made by Bramante. Ornament on the year of death arzhitektora (1514) and the year of issue, it is the same year the 500th anniversary of the death of Bramante (2014).
The coin is made of 925 silver (proof), the weight of '18, diameter 32 mm, with a circulation of 15 thousand. Ind.
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