M0013503: Illustration of the virgin birth

Previous title, replaced January 2022: The birth of the Virgin. School of Giotto.

Photograph of a painting by the School of Giotto depicting the virgin birth showing the child wrapped in swaddling clothes. The original painting is on a wall in the Church of Santa Maria Novella, Firenze. This reproducton was made from an unidentified photograph.

June 1954

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.