 While the majority of scenes in the chapel have a completely symmetrical arrangement in their internal architecture and even the positioning of the figures, this picture is markedly asymmetrical, with a pier dividing it into two areas based on the golden mean.This asymmetrical structure links it to the scene of "The Visitation" in which a wall is placed to divide the picture space in the same manner.However the positioning of the figures, with St. Anne in bed and the group entering from the left is mirrored by "The Birth of St John", although there the figures are placed in a much more conventional internal space.