Altarpiece of the Nativity

For the Piccolomini Chapel Antonio Rossellini carved an altarpiece of the Nativity in which the Nativity itself forms the central image with statues of St James and St John the Evangelist flanking it. The Nativity relief is an autograph work with a richly pictorial style. The St James and the St John the Evangelist represent a logical progression from the figures sent earlier to Venice and Ferrara.