Museo Pontificio della Santa Casa
The Museo Pontificio della Santa Casa at the Santuario di Loreto preserves four feather mosaics from New Spain, depicting saints (Saint Jerome, Saint Ambrose, Saint Augustine, and Saint Gregory), datable to the seventeenth century. The four mosaics were donated to the sanctuary on 7 November 1668 by the Augustinian Pietro Lanfranconi, bishop of Terni between 1667 and 1674.
References
Kern, M. 2018. “Cultured Materiality in Early Modern Art: Fetaher Mosaic in Sixteenth century Collections”, in The Nomadic Object. The Challenge of World for Early Modern Religious Art, eds. C. Göttler, M.M. Mochizuki, 319-341. Leiden: Brill.
Russo, A., G. Wolf, D. Fane, eds. 2015. Images Take Flight. Feather Art in Mexico and Europe, 1400-1700), 387-389, 451, figs. 231, 233, 254. Munich: Hirmer.
Links
Santuario della Santa Casa di Loreto, Piazza della Madonna, 1, 60025 Loreto (AN)
