"Madonna dei Pellegrini", ("Madonna of the Pilgrims"), painted by Caravaggio between 1604-06, was commissioned by the Cavalletti family
for their Chapel in the church of Sant'Agostino, near the Piazza Navona in Rome.

As is common in a lot of Caravaggio's paintings in the early Baroque period, the Virgin is shown here as an ordinary person that the common people could relate to,
as opposed to her depictions in the Renaissance as the Queen of Heaven.
The painting includes two peasants kneeling at her feet in adoration, with their dirty bare feet exposed to the viewer, something that was not acceptable in religious art at the time.

The composition leads the viewer to feel the he is next in line behind the kneeling peasants in the painting, who wait
to worship at the feet of Mary and the baby, just as we see the two viewers here admiring Caravaggio's work.