At the center of a curtain preciously embroidered with pomegranate motifs, symbols of fertility and abundance, resides the Virgin, who embodies the image of a real pregnant woman as she pushes back the folds of her dress to show her pregnancy.

Two angels, made starting from the same overturned cardboard, open the curtain to reveal the exaltation of motherhood.

Painted by Piero della Francesca for the church of Santa Maria in Momentana in Monterchi, known since ancient times for traditions and rituals linked to fertility. In the early 1990s, the work was restored and moved to the former elementary school of the municipality, which was later transformed into a museum, where it is still kept today.

Found in the church of Santa Maria in Momentana, on the layer of plaster below the Madonna del Parto, the fresco by an unknown local artist portrays a votive image of the Virgin lactans, whose cult was used to obtain lasting and abundant milk.

The Virgin can be recognized in the act of breastfeeding the Child and a male figure, probably the client of the fresco, in the act of paying homage to the Madonna.

Integration carried out by the mason Casucci, referable to the "block" detachment of the Madonna del Parto, in which the work was cut and the upper part removed. This detachment could have occurred during the transformations of the church of Santa Maria in Momentana, to re-adapt it to a cemetery chapel at the end of the eighteenth century.

On the occasion of the 1992 restoration, it was decided to separate this fragment from the fifteenth-century painting, keeping it separately.