Nativity of the Virgin is a 1438–1439 tempera on panel painting, now in the Museum of Sacred Art in Ascanio, Province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy. It forms the central panel of a multi-panel altarpiece, the rest of which shows episodes from the life of the Virgin Mary. Once attributed to the Master of the Osservanza Triptych by Roberto Longhi and others, it is now usually attributed to Sano di Pietro.
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Bibliography . Giulietta Chelazzi Dini, Alessandro Angelini, Bernardina Sani and Maïa Rosenberger, Les Peintres de Sienne, Imprimerie nationale, 1997 , Stefano Zuffi, Grande atlante del Rinascimento, Electa, Milan 2007. .
External links Notice des Musei Senesi