# Birth of the Virgin \(north wall, detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GIOVANNI DA MILANO]() - Date: 1301-1350 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary Agnolo Gaddi, Giovanni da Milano, and Altichiero da Zevio competed in the development of Giotto's figurative space. The plane of the wall as the foremost level of fictive space, combined with perspective in depth, remains. But the paintings of the Rinuccini Chapel in Santa Croce in Florence in 1365 by Giovanni da Milano points up the further possibilities of pictorial architecture in its ornamental framing. The compressed space loses its importance as architectural space and gains in decorative elegance, though even here the figures in the story of the Virgin act within an architectural stageset. The poetry of their movements reflects the refined patterns painted on the frame. ## Related artworks - [Birth of the Virgin \(north wall, detail\)]() - [Christ and the Virgin Enthroned with Six Saints \(detail\)]() - [Christ and the Virgin Enthroned with Six Saints \(detail\)]() - [Christ and the Virgin Enthroned with Six Saints]() - [Christ Enthroned with Four Adoring Angels]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Eleven Saints]() - [Expulsion of Joachim from the Temple \(north wall, detail\)]() - [Expulsion of Joachim from the Temple \(north wall, detail\)]() - [Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee \(south wall, detail\)]() - [Incredulity of St Thomas]() - [Meeting of Joachim and Anne at the Golden Gate \(north wall, detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()