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South face of the Renaissance marble screen around the Holy House, commissioned by Pope Julius II (1503-13)
The Casa Santa is a plain stone building, 8.5 m by 3.8 m and 4.1 m high; it has a door on the north side and a window on the west; and a niche contains a small black image of the Virgin and Child, in Lebanon cedar, and richly adorned with jewels.