Madonna of Loreto
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da

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Alternative Titles
Madonna dei Pellegrini
Madonna of the Pilgrims
Date
1604-1605Description
Madonna dei Pelegrini, detail; Three out of five of the altarpieces that he delivered between 1602 and 1606 were either rejected outright or soon taken down. Only the Entombment (1602-1604; Rome, Pin. Vaticana) for the Vittrice Chapel in the Chiesa Nuova and the Madonna of Loreto (or Madonna of the Pilgrims, 1604-1605; Rome, S Agostino) prospered, both destined to become highly popular devotional works, not least with the poor. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 1/21/2008)
Type of Work
painting (visual work)Subject
New Testament, saints, Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Baroque
Rights
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