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Title

The Nativity of the Virgin

Artist

Sano di Pietro

Physical Description

This painted panel depicts an intimate domestic setting consisting of a bedchamber with a fireplace and a smaller vaulted antechamber that opens out on a garden. A haloed woman wearing a white veil rests in bed, having recently given birth. She leans to her right as she reaches toward a basin held by an attendant and looks across the room to the infant who is held on the lap of another servant. A halo also encircles the head of the child and a pair of angels fly above her. Several other attendants and midwives bustle about the room, while another woman, more richly clad than the servants, gazes on the child from her seat at the foot of the bed. In the antechamber sits a haloed man in a long white beard, who leans forward to hear news of the birth from the child standing in front of him. A companion sits behind him and a servant passes through the door into the bedchamber.

Artist Life Dates

1405-1481

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1448-1452

Accession Number

1977/2.1

Medium and Support

tempera and gold on panel

relevance

rank 12.16564

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italy (nation)

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siena (province)

sleeping and reclining furniture

tuscany (region)

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