2 Euro "Bramante Lazzari"

He designed the Basilica of San Pietro, was considered "inventor and light of good and true architecture", as well as one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance. There are many countries that claim the birthdays, as well as the monument, located in Piazzetta Bramante Lazzari in San Marino, erected on a design by Amos Lucchetti Gentiloni by the sculptor Aldo Volpini, they remember: "To the Grand architect Bramante Lazzari - from more disputed Fatherland - the Republic of Titan - who - on the faith of Sabba Castiglione - considers native of the Penne di San Marino - in the 525th anniversary of the birth - this marble memory - dedicates". On the front of the same is a bas-relief, by the sculptor anconetano Sanzio Blasi, which depicts the Bramante as it appears in a fresco by Raphael. Although there are no works of the architect on the Titan, the historical reconstruction, as well as the writing accompanying the monument intends to testify, seems to trace the birth of the "supreme" right in the Republic. The aforementioned knight Gerosolimitano Mons. Sabba Castiglione, contemporary of Bramante and considered a man and particularly credible scholar, in the Venetian edition of "Memories" (1582), put the seal to that hypothesis with an indisputable passage: "Where it happens, that F. Bramante of the feathers of San Marino, huomo di grand'ingegno, cosmografo poet vulgar, et valente painter, as disciple of the Mantegna, et grā prospective, as created by Pietro del Borgo, but in architecture so excellent,...". The coin depicts the face of Bramante and the Temple of San Pietro in Montorio, designed by Bramante at the Convent of San Pietro in Montorio in Rome.