Another lousy drawing

Since I wasn’t able to make it to Our Lady of the Wayside church this morning, I instead did a drawing taken from the painting, Madonna Della Strada. The original painting was in a church dating back to the fifth century, although the painting itself only dates back to the 13th or 14th century. The Gesù Church in Rome, the mother church of the Jesuits was built on the site of that church, but the painting was transferred to the new church after being somehow transformed from a fresco painted directly on the wall of the old church to canvas. 

A fun fact is that even though I was aware of this title of the Virgin Mary because of the Loyola University chapel named Madonna Della Strada (which was so named at least in part because when it was built, there were still plans to extend Lake Shore Drive north past its current terminus Hollywood Avenue), I thought I was being snide when I came up with “Our Lady of the Freeway” (which is a legitimate albeit anachronistic) translation of Our Lady of the Wayside/Madonna Della Strada, as the title for one of my stories.