# Exterior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SANGALLO, Antonio da, the Younger]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary Santa Maria di Loreto is located just across the street from the Trajan's Column, near the Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II. The church was built atop an earlier 15th century chapel, which contained an icon of the Virgin of Loreto, hence the church retained the icon and acquired the title. The church had been begun by Donato Bramante c. 1507 and continued by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger. Built on a restricted site, to a centralized plan, it has a square base and an octagonal drum with a prominent cupola; the small chancel projects at the rear. The lower parts of the church and the principal façade to the south were complete when work restarted under Giacomo del Duca, after 1573. The powerful cupola with the complex lantern is the work by Giacomo del Duca. ## Related artworks - [Exterior view]() - [Façade for St. Peter's]() - [Model for St. Peter's]() - [Palazzo Farnese: Courtyard]() - [Palazzo Farnese: Courtyard]() - [Palazzo Farnese: Façade \(detail\)]() - [Palazzo Farnese: Façade]() - [Palazzo Farnese: Façade]() - [Palazzo Farnese: Façade]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()