A gleaming white Renaissance masterpiece fills the frame — the polychrome glazed terracotta altarpiece by Andrea della Robbia presides over a 14th-century baptismal font inside the Cattedrale di Montepulciano, a hilltop Tuscan city perched at 605 meters above sea level. The altarpiece blazes with the della Robbia workshop's signature blue-and-white palette accented by vivid green garlands of citrus fruit; four Franciscan saints flank a central Nativity niche beneath an Annunciation lunette where two angels lean toward a vase of lilies. The font's carved stone pedestal, populated with tiny figures, anchors the composition below. Montepulciano's cathedral (begun 1586, façade never completed) houses this extraordinary ensemble that draws pilgrims and art historians alike to the Siena province hill town immortalized by Poliziano and, more recently, by popular fiction.