day or dusk, she and the Angel Gabriel shine while the house is in shadows. In Christ in Limbo (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena), an atypically represented topic, Christ sways in contrapposto as he enters a netherworld of ruins and souls. S. J. Freedberg compares his vibrant eccentric figures to those of the Florentine mannerist contemporary Rosso Fiorentino, yet more "optical and fluid". While all the elements of the expected religious scenes are here, it is like a play in which all the actors have taken atypical costumes, and forgotten some of their lines. In Medieval Italy, Siena had been an artistic, economic, and political rival of Florence; but wars and natural disasters caused a decline by the 15th century. Stylistically, Beccafumi is among the last in a line of Sienese artists, a medieval believer of miracles awaking in Renaissance reality. Partial anthology of works The Miraculous Communion of St Catherine of Siena (1513) - J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata (1513) - J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Trinity Triptych (1513) - Oil on wood, 152 x 228 cm, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (c.1514-1515) - Uffizi, Florence Marriage of St Catherine (1514–1515) - Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena Bellanti Madonna (c.1515) - Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena St. Paul (1515) - Oil on wood, 190 x 150 cm, Museo dell'Opera Metropolitana, Siena Marcia (1519), National Gallery, London Stigmatization of St. Catherine of Siena (1515) - Oil on wood, 208 x 156 cm, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena The Betrothal of the Virgin (1518) - Fresco, 295 x 304 cm, Oratory of San Bernardino, Siena Tanaquil (1519) - Oil on wood, 92 x 53 cm, National Gallery, London Self Portrait (1520) The Story of Papirius (1520-1530) -National Gallery, London St. Lucy (1521) - Oil on wood, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine (1521) - Hermitage, St. Petersburg Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (c.1521-1522) -Galleria Palatina, Florence Frescoes -Palazzo Bindi-Segardi, Siena Frescoes of scenes from Roman historyPalazzo Pubblico, Siena (1529–1535) The Holy Family with Young Saint John (1523–1524) - Oil on panel, diameter 86 cm, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Fall of the Rebel Angels (c. 1524) -Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena Fall of the Rebel Angels (c. 1528) - Oil on wood, 347 x 225 cm, San Niccolò al Carmine, Siena Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (1528) -Palazzo Chigi-Saracini, Siena Vision