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If you go to visit the sanctuary of Loreto you must also see the Treasure Room inside the Basilica, where the frescoes by Pomarancio are located.
From Tuscany where he was born in 1551 in Pomarance near Pisa, he had apprenticed in Florence then in Siena and was finally attracted to Rome where he received his first real assignments, until under the protection of Pope Sixtus V and Clement VIII he took on almost an official position that allows him to carry out numerous public and private activities.
He arrived in Loreto thanks to Cardinal Gallo and was commissioned to decorate the vaults of the new sacristy of the Sanctuary. The various scenes all focus on the exaltation of Mary through allegorical, biblical figures and celestial glorifications.

He is a painter of manner, solemn and courtly, the painter of the Counter-Reformation if we want to call him that, a painter of the tradition that dates back to Raphael. So appreciated that after the Sacristy the doors were opened to him to access another undertaking, that of decorating the dome of the Basilica of Loreto with frescoes which always aimed at the glorification of the Madonna. Pomarancio will remain in the Marche for ten years, also because in the meantime other works are commissioned from him, even by private individuals.

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