# Birth of the Virgin [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BANDINELLI, Baccio]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary Baccio was sent off to Loreto to help Andrea Sansovino with one of the large reliefs for the marble revetment of the Santa Casa inside the Loreto basilica; he made several preparatory sketches and began carving the Birth of the Virgin between 1517 and 1519 \(in situ\), but abandoned work about half way through \(the panel was eventually finished, 1530-33, by Raffaello da Montelupo\). It is a rather arid and static rendering of the scene, perhaps reflecting a lack of enthusiasm for the remote Loretan commission that was shared by other Florentine sculptors. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve]() - [Alessandro de'Medici]() - [Andrea Doria as Neptune]() - [Apollo]() - [Balustrade in the choir \(detail\)]() - [Bust of Cosimo I de' Medici]() - [Bust of Cosimo I de' Medici]() - [Bust of Cosimo I]() - [Christ Tended by an Angel]() - [Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence \(detail\)]() - [Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence]() - [Dead Christ Supported by Nicodemus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()