Madonna di Loreto (Caravaggio)

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Madonna of Loreto
Italian: Madonna dei pellegrini
The location of the painting today Click on the map to see marker.
Artist	Caravaggio
Year	c. 1604–1606
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	260 cm × 150 cm (100 in × 59 in)
Location	Sant'Agostino, Rome
Coordinates	41°54′3.24″N 12°28′27.44″E / 41.9009000°N 12.4742889°E / 41.9009000; 12.4742889

The Madonna of Loreto or Pilgrim's Madonna is a painting (1604–1606) by the Italian Baroque master

In 1603 the heirs of marquis Ermete Cavalletti, who had died on 21 July 1602, commissioned a painting on the theme of the Madonna of Loreto to decorate a family chapel.^[1] As instructed by the marquis's will, the Cavaletti's purchased a chapel in the church of Sant'Agostino in Rome on 4 September 1603.^[2]

The painter

It has been suggested that Caravaggio's composition is at least in part derived from a detail of a 1574 engraving, Adoration of the Magi, after Rosso Fiorentino, by Caravaggio's friend Cherubino Alberti (1553–1615).^[3]

See also

• List of paintings by Caravaggio

References