The "Flora in Art" series ran across multiple years and artistic movements, with the Neoclassicism installment drawing on the late 18th- and early 19th-century Italian enthusiasm for antiquity that followed the Herculaneum and Pompeii excavations. Those digs, ongoing from the 1730s and 1750s respectively, reshaped how European artists understood the ancient world and directly fueled the movement's aesthetic program.
Mintage for this issue was capped at 3,000 pieces.
The "Flora in Art" series ran across multiple years and artistic movements, with the Neoclassicism installment drawing on the late 18th- and early 19th-century Italian enthusiasm for antiquity that followed the Herculaneum and Pompeii excavations. Those digs, ongoing from the 1730s and 1750s respectively, reshaped how European artists understood the ancient world and directly fueled the movement's aesthetic program.
Mintage for this issue was capped at 3,000 pieces.