2011 Italy €10 Silver Proof "Giorgio Vasari"

• Mint: IPZS (Italian Mint)
• Denomination: €10
• Quality: Proof
• Issue limit: 7,000 pcs.
• Alloy: 92.5% Sterling Silver
• Diameter: 34 mm
• Weight: 22 grams
• Box/Capsule: Yes/Yes
• Certificate: Yes

Additional Information

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This issue celebrates the 500th anniversary of the birth of Italian artist, painter, architect, and extraordinary art historian, Giorgio Vasari.

Vasari is the author of “Lives of the most excellent Italian painters, sculptors and architects”, a milestone in the historiography of art which was published in 1550. As an architect, he contributed to the construction of the Uffizi in Florence, the Villa Giulia in Rome, and the Logge in Arezzo. His paintings of exceptional and allegorical subjects clearly show the influence of Michelangelo and Raphael.

The obverse of the coin features a representation of Vasari’s self portrait with a decorative element drawn from an engraving on the cover of his work “The Lives”. The reverse of the coin includes detail from an engraving by Vasari which depicts a female figure holding the book “Le Vite”. In the background is a decorative element drawn from an old engraving by the artist.