2021 – 2 Euro SAN MARINO 450th Anniversary of the Birth of Caravaggio Unc

2 Euro commemorative coin of San Marino year 2021, quality Brilliant Uncirculated, celebrating the 450th Anniversary of the Birth of Caravaggio

Background:

Michelangelo Merisi, universally known as Caravaggio, (Milan, 29 September 1571 [1] – Porto Ercole, 18 July 1610) was an Italian painter.

Trained in Milan and active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610, Caravaggio acquired great international fame in life and immediately after his death, constituting the current of Caravaggism and exerting a strong influence on Baroque painting of the seventeenth century , but was then forgotten until the critical rediscovery in the twentieth century, and is today considered one of the most famous representatives of Western art of all time.

His paintings demonstrate an exceptional sensitivity in observing the physical and emotional human condition, accentuated by the great fidelity to the live model and the scenographic use of light, considered at the time revolutionary characteristics in total contrast to Raphael's academic practice.