GOZZOLI, Benozzo
(b. ca. 1420, Firenze, d. 1497, Pistoia)

Birth of Mary

1491
Transferred fresco
Biblioteca Comunale, Castelfiorentino

This scene is on the exterior wall of the Shrine of the Visitation. The Birth of Mary takes place in the presence of several women in a perspectively constructed interior, a bed chamber that is furnished with marble wall paneling and a wooden coffered ceiling.