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The Madonna of Loreto (Madonna of the Pilgrims)
c. 1604–06 · Basilica di Sant'Agostino in Campo Marzio, Roma
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image 14×24 in on a 18×24 in sheet
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Our Lady stands barefoot in a doorway with the Christ Child on her hip, and two pilgrims kneel before her, the man with his soles turned to us. They are filthy. Giovanni Baglione noted them in 1642, with the woman's torn and dirty cap, and recorded that the common people raised an extreme clamour. He meant it as a complaint. Ferdinando Bologna reads the clamour as recognition: they had seen themselves. Loreto keeps the house the angels were said to have carried from Nazareth. Caravaggio paints no house and no angels, only a poor doorstep, and the Child, as Bellori saw Him, lifting a hand to bless them.
Sources: Giovanni Baglione, Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti (Rome, 1642), Life of Caravaggio, p. 137 · Ferdinando Bologna, ‘Merisi, Michelangelo, detto il Caravaggio’, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 73 (2009) · the Cavalletti chapel; a young mother on the doorpost of a poor house, two ragged pilgrims kneeling, and the offence to post-Tridentine decorum · Giovan Pietro Bellori, Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti moderni (Rome, 1672) · the Holy House at Loreto, said by ancient tradition to have been carried from Nazareth by angels