The Basilica of St Francis

Nativity of the Virgin

  • The painting, placed on the right wall where the Baroque altar of the Segardi family was located, was made in the mid-seventeenth century by Sienese artist Giovanni Battista Ramacciotti, a follower of the more popular Raffaello Vanni. The artist set the birth of the Virgin Mary in a domestic environment, populated by many characters: the colossal figure of a servant taking some swaddling bands . . .