Helper of Pinturicchio, The Birth of the Virgin

1489-91
Fresco
Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome

This is the first in a series of frescos in the half-dome of the Basso della Rovere Chapel. It applies the usual iconography: The birth is pictured in a middle-class home of the period; St. Anne is in a bed in the background; the baby is in the foreground with midwives; and a very old St. Joachim ponders the event on the far right.

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See the other frescos in the series: Mary's Presentation in the Temple, the Annunciation, the Visitation, and her marriage to St. Joseph.

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Photographed at the church by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.