4200B

Saint Gregory the Great

Artist: Unidentified Novohispanic Artist
Title: Saint Gregory the Great
Date: 17th century
Medium: Feather mosaic and paper over copper.
Location: Museo Antico Tesoro, Santuario della Santa Casa, Loreto, Italia.
Photo Source: Santuario della Santa Casa (with permission of the Pontifical Delegation for the Shrine of the Holy House of Loreto. All rights reserved to the Pontifical Delegation for the Shrine of the Holy House of Loreto on the art works under its competence).
Note: There are close engravings of the same subject and in the same direction by Jacques Granthomme (b. 1560?) and Thomas de Leu (1560-1612). Yet, like the feather mosaic, the Cool engraving shows a cross over the papal miter and a column with a many-layered pedestal behind the saint. Neither the Granthomme nor the de Leu engraving shows any of this.
Item: 4200B