The Nativity of the Virgin is an oil-on-panel painting by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Altdorfer, dating to c. 1520, which is now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.
The work uses a scenic composition typical of the Danube school of the time.
The subject, the birth of Mary, is shown in a secondary location in the lower part of the painting.
The edifice, symbolizing the analogy between Mary and the Catholic church (a subject later abolished by the Protestant Reformation), is organized in a complicated and original fashion: the ambulatory and the column galleries are Romanesque, the ogival windows are Gothic, the vaults and the shell-shaped niches are in Renaissance style.
This attention to architectural elements was typical of Altdorfer's work in the period he spent at the court of Maximilian I.