SARACENI, Carlo
(b. 1579, Venezia, d. 1620, Venezia)

The Birth of the Virgin

1616-19
Oil on copper, 71 x 42 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

This painting is a copy (with several variations) of a monumental composition which Saraceni painted in oil for the Annunciation chapel in the church of Santa Maria in Aquiro, in Rome.