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Madonna di Loreto is completed

1605 CE · Italy, Europe · Culture

Madonna di Loreto is completed
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The Madonna di Loreto or Pilgrims' Madonna is a painting created c. 1604–1606 by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, located in the Cavalletti Chapel of the church of Sant'Agostino, just northeast of the Piazza Navona in Rome. It depicts the barefoot Virgin holding her naked child in a doorway before two kneeling peasants on a pilgrimage.

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