Appel à contribution : « The Itinerant Shrine: Art, History, and the Multiple Geographies of the Holy House of Loreto », Londres, The Courtauld Institute of Art, du 30 juin au 01 juillet 2022, date limite le 15 mars 2022
The Santa Casa, or Holy House of the Virgin Mary, is a relic in constant motion. Legend holds that at the end of the thirteenth century, a company of angels flew Mary’s small brick house—the site of the Annunciation and Jesus’s childhood home—out of Nazareth before eventually depositing it in Loreto, a remote hill town in the Marches region of Central Italy. Over the ensuing centuries, the House prompted the movement of people to the...