FIGURE 8.1 Giambattista Tiepolo and Girolamo Mingozzi FIGURE 8.2 Santa Maria di Nazareth (Santa Maria degli Colonna (Italian, ca. 1688-ca. 1766). The Translation of Scalzi), Venice, after the bombing in 191$. Photo: Archivio the Holy House ofLoreto, 174$. Fresco destroyed in World War I. Naya-Bohm, Venice. Formerly Venice, Santa Maria di Nazareth (Santa Maria degli Scalzi). Photo: Alinari/Art Resource, New York. in the Santa Casa increased considerably. Pope Moreover, Tiepolo had worked in Santa Maria Benedict XIII Orsini (r. 1723—30) extended the di Nazareth earlier in his career, frescoing office and mass for the cult to Venice, and an two chapels in the church between 1727 and 1733, important compendium of documents, as well as including an illusionistic ceiling depicting the an archaeological study reaffirming the Holy founder of the Discalced Carmelites, The Apotheosis House's biblical origins, appeared in the 17305. of Saint Teresa ofAvila.4 Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (r. 1740-58) The detailed documents regarding the ceiling focused yet more attention on the Santa Casa, indicate that Tiepolo received the commission writing a treatise on Loreto. In 1744, a local in September 1743. Although Tiepolo was the Venetian parish church even sponsored the con- lead designer for the project, he worked with 3 his longtime collaborator, Girolamo Mingozzi struction of a replica of the house. Tiepolo would have been the obvious choice Colonna, who created a fictive architectural for the Carmelites' commission. The artist setting for the fresco. By the end of the year enjoyed great favor from Carmelite patrons Mingozzi Colonna had asked to have the ceiling in Venice, including a major recent commission restructured, and he only finished his share from the Scuola Grande dei Carmini in 1740. of the work in April 1745, after which Tiepolo THE HOLY HOUSE OF LORETO 55