Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Virgin Mary / Virgin and Child / Full length / Standing / Child at right
Virgin Mary / Virgin and Child / In clouds
Virgin Mary / Iconography of the Virgin Mary / Casa Santa di Loreto / in flight

Further details

Drinking bowl decorated with the Madonna of Loreto, showing the Virgin and Child and the Santa Casa (Holy House, scene of the annunciation), flying through the clouds to Loreto, where it was supposedly carried by angels from Nazereth

Artist or creator

Loreto district

Date

1700 (circa) - 1750 (circa)

Location

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Timothy Wilson, Italian Maiolica and Europe, Oxford 2017, cat. no. 159

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