Madonna dei Pellegrini
Caravaggio
c. 1604โ1606
Oil on canvas
260 cm ร 150 cm (100 in ร 59 in)
Sant'Agostino, Rome
The Madonna of Loreto or Pilgrim's Madonna is a famous painting (1604โ1606) by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, located in the Cavalletti Chapel of the church of Sant'Agostino, near the Piazza Navona in Rome. It depicts the apparition of the barefoot virgin and naked child to two peasants on a pilgrimage; or as some say it is the quickening of the iconic statue of the Virgin.
c. 1604โ1606
Oil on canvas
260 cm ร 150 cm (100 in ร 59 in)
Sant'Agostino, Rome
The Madonna of Loreto or Pilgrim's Madonna is a famous painting (1604โ1606) by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, located in the Cavalletti Chapel of the church of Sant'Agostino, near the Piazza Navona in Rome. It depicts the apparition of the barefoot virgin and naked child to two peasants on a pilgrimage; or as some say it is the quickening of the iconic statue of the Virgin.