# Nativity [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [AGABITI, Pietro Paolo]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Terracotta ## Commentary This large 16th century terracotta Nativity scene is attributed to Pietro Paolo Agabiti, an artist from Sassoferrato who has worked extensively in Jesi where he took refuge to escape a murder charge. The large crib adorned an altar of the demolished church of San Francesco al Monte and consists of the Nativity scene surmounted by a rural landscape populated by shepherds, pipers and angels. The sacred scene is enclosed within a splendid terracotta frame, finely worked with ornamental motifs in relief in which dolphins, lions, lizards, snails and griffins appear. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Lunette and predella]() - [Nativity]() - [Nativity]() - [Sacred Representation with Sts Francis, Anthony of Padua and Bernardino]() - [St Jerome in the Desert]() - [Sts Sebastian and Roch]() - [Virgin Enthroned between Sts John the Baptist and Anthony of Padua]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()