Mike Wiggins

Pietro Lorenzetti, Birth of the Virgin, from the altar of Saint Savinus, Siena Cathedral, Siena, Italy, 1342. Tempera on wood, 6′ 1″× 5′11″. Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Siena. In this triptych, Pietro Lorenzetti revived the pictorial illusion - ism of ancient Roman murals and painted the architectural members dividing the panel as if they extended back into the painted space.