Basilica della Santa Casa
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The Basilica della Santa Casa is a Marian shrine in Loreto, in the Marches, Italy. The shrine is widely known for preserving the house of the Holy Family. Pious legends claim the same house was supern
The façade edifice of the Basilica della Santa Casa.
Sacristy with murals by Luca Signorelli
Interior view of the Holy House of Loreto, showing its plain masonry walls
Marble screen around the Holy House
Holy Family
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The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. The subject became popular in Christian art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally beg
Basilica della Santa Casa
…English: Basilica of the Holy House) is a Marian shrine in Loreto, in the Marches, Italy. The shrine is widely known for preserving the house of the Holy Family. Pious legends claim the same house was supernaturally flown over by angelic beings from Nazareth to Tersatto (Trsat in Croatia), then to Recanati…
Miniature in the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany, 1503–1508, by Jean Bourdichon
Holy Family with Saints Anne and John the Baptist, Andrea Mantegna, 1495-1500
Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece, c. 1500
Joos van Cleve, Metropolitan Museum of Art, c. 1512, adapting a van Eyck Madonna with Joseph added