Pilgrim's Madonna

Pilgrim's Madonna is an original old master artwork realized by a follower of Caravaggio in the Late 18th Century.

The artowork is from one of the most famous masterpiece of Caravaggio: Pilgrim's Madonna or Madonna from Loreto located in the Cavalletti Chapel of the church of Sant'Agostino, Rome.

Antique Salvator Rosa frame in gilded wood in mecca. The painting is relined.

The painting is one of several copies of the well-known Madonna dei Pellegrini painted by Michelangelo Merisi between 1604 and 1606 for the Cavalletti Chapel in the Basilica of Sant'Agostino in Rome. The altarpiece was commissioned to Caravaggio in 1603 by Orizia de 'Rossi, widow of the Bolognese Count Ermete Cavalletti (? -1602), notary and computist of the Apostolic Chamber, to be placed in the chapel where her husband was buried. The innovative element of Cavaraggio's work, which as Giovanni Baglione, one of Merisi's first biographers tells us, was welcomed "by priests and commoners [with] extreme shouting", is undoubtedly the non-idealized representation of the sacred scene. . The Madonna with the Child in her arms, at the door of the Holy House, and the two kneeling pilgrims are, in fact, people of the people, represented with torn garments and with bare and swollen feet placed in the foreground.
Currently there are thirteen ancient replicas of the Madonna dei Pellegrini by Caravaggio, ten of the collectors and antiques market, while one, on copper, is kept in Florence in the Deposits of the Florentine Galleries, another in Avigliana in the Sanctuary of Santa Maria dei Laghi and, finally, in Todi in the church of San Niccolò, executed by Andrea Polidori (1586-1648).

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