Pietro Lorenzetti - The birth of Mary

Pietro Lorenzetti - The birth of Mary
  • Title: The birth of Mary (Natività della Vergine)
  • Artist: Pietro Lorenzetti (c.1285-1348)
  • Date: 1342
  • Medium: Tempera and gold on wood panel
  • Dimensions: 187 × 182 cm

The “Birth of Mary” is the first known one-point perspective painting. Another novelty is that, despite the columns in the middle of it, the painting is a whole, a continuous space There is a sense of everyday life- the style of the clothes worn, objects of the time, Jesus being washed like any new born.

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