This relief marks an apogee in the work of Rossellino. He succeeds in a masterly manner in depicting a close and heartfelt connection between mother and child, paying heed to the scenes aspect of Salvation through an incomparably graceful attitude and a certain reticent dignity in his personages. This expressiveness is matched by a kind of monumentality of mother and child, who nearly fill the entire surface of the relief. The subtly treated surface appears as if painted with a chisel. The relief greatly influenced many Florentine artists of the Early Renaissance, first and foremost Verrocchio.