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unusual facts about the Madonna



The Power of Myth

The Troubadours, Eros, romantic love, Tristan, libido vs. credo, separation from love, Satan, loving your enemy, the Crucifixion as atonement, virgin birth, the story of Isis, Osiris and Horus, the Madonna, the Big Bang, the correlation between the earth or mother Goddess and images of fertility (the sacred feminine).


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Acqui Cathedral

The most important work of art in the cathedral by far however is the triptych of the Madonna di Montserrat, the Annunciation to the Virgin of Montserrat, the work of the 15th century Spanish painter Bartolomé Bermejo, in the chapter house.

Alas the Madonna Does Not Function

Alas the Madonna Does Not Function is a 12" EP by Nurse with Wound.

Antonio Ermolao Paoletti

Among his many frescoes is the main altarpiece depicting the Madonna of the Rosary with St Anthony and St Materno (1863) for the parish church of Melara.

Arnolfo di Cambio

Around 1282 he finished the monument to Cardinal Guillaume de Braye in the church of San Domenico in Orvieto, including an enthroned Madonna (a Maestà) for which he took as a model an ancient Roman statue of the goddess Abundantia; the Madonna's tiara and jewels reproduce antique models.

Aurelio Lomi

In Rome, he painted frescoes in the Pinelli chapel of Santa Maria in Vallicella, including Scenes from the life of the Virgin and Birth of Jesus on the arches, and the Dormition, Coronation, and Funeral of the Madonna on the vault.

Bettona

The Pinacoteca Comunale in the Palazzetto del Podestà (1371) has a painting by Pietro Perugino, the Madonna of Mercy, as well as other works by Iacopo Siculo, Dono Doni, Fiorenzo di Lorenzo and Della Robbia.

Domenico Veneziano

Other important works are the Madonna del Roseto in the National Museum of Art of Romania and the Madonna

Erasmus Grasser

He worked mainly in wood, and is best known for the 16 (now 10) figures of Moriskentänzer (Morris dancers) (1480), the madonna of the high altar in St Mary (Ramersdorf), the oak choir stalls at the cathedral of Munich (1502) and the high altar at Reichersdorf (1502–1506).

Ferrara Cathedral

The Cathedral Museum, housed in the former church of San Romano across the square, houses two works by Cosmè Tura (Annunciation and St. George and the Dragon), the Madonna della melagrana by Jacopo della Quercia and eight tapestries with stories of the two patron saints of Ferrara based on cartoons by Garofalo and Camillo Filippi.

Girolamo di Giovanni di Camerino

Girolamo di Giovanni di Camerino was an Italian painter, and is generally supposed to be the son of Giovanni Boccati, and was the painter of an altar-piece at Santa Maria del Pozzo in Monte San Martino, near Fermo, and represents the Madonna and Child, and four Angels, between SS. Thomas and Cyprian (1473)

Henry II, Lord of Mecklenburg

The city rose up again in 1313, when Henry was undertaking a pilgrimage to the Madonna del Rocca church in Castelmola.

I'll Remember

The music video was directed by Alek Keshishian, who had previously directed the live performance versions of "Like a Virgin" (1984) and "Holiday" (1983) from the Truth or Dare documentary and also the music video of her single "This Used to Be My Playground" (1992).

Luca Cancellari

Admirable icons that ended up in Western Europe after the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204, like the Madonna Nicopeia in St Mark's Basilica in Venice, the Madonna di San Luca in the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca in Bologna, the Madonna Salus Populi Romani in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome and other with Greek inscriptions of that period are attributed to him.

Madonna of humility

A miracle attributed to the fresco of the Madonna of humility painted in about 1370 gave rise to the construction of the Basilica of Our Lady of Humility in Pistoia, in Tuscany, Italy.

Madonna of the Pinks

After a huge public appeal the Madonna of the Pinks was bought in 2004 by the National Gallery from the Duke of Northumberland for £34.88 million, with contributions from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the National Art Collections Fund.

Mattia Bortoloni

In Mondovi, he painted in the church of the Sanctuary of the Madonna di Vico.

Oreste Recchione

Recchione has two paintings in Abruzzo: St Andrew Fisherman (1870) in the church of the Madonna del Rosario in Palena, and a Holy Family (1902) in Abbey of Monteplanizio at Lettopalena.

Palermo Cathedral

The mosaic portraying the Madonna is from the 13th century, while the two monuments on the walls, works of the early 18th century, represents King Charles III of Bourbon and Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, the latter of which was crowned here with his wife Anne Marie d'Orléans in December 1713.

Parish Church of Saint John and Saint Ermolao

Among the works are: two paintings by Aurelio Lomi, a tablet with the Madonna and Child by Cecco di Pietro and what remains of a cross painted in the 12th century .

San Bartolomeo, Milan

The prior church had an iconic painting of the Madonna del Buon Aiuto (Our Lady of Good Help), originally attributed to Lucas Cranach, donated by Countess Teresa Gordone Serbelloni when the Ottoman army was nearing the siege of Vienna.

Themes in Italian Renaissance painting

In Bellini's painting, while on one hand, the figures and the setting give the effect of great realism, Bellini's interest in Byzantine icons is displayed in the hierarchical enthronement and demeanour of the Madonna.

Leonardo da Vinci abandoned any sort of formal canopy and surrounded the Madonna and Child with the grandeur of nature into which he set the figures in a carefully balanced ye seemingly informal trapezoid composition.

Viboldone Abbey

The entrance portal is in white marble, and is surmounted by a lunette with marble sculptures of the "Madonna with Child between the Saints Ambrose and John of Meda".

Virgin Kębelska

Its prototype was a stone statue of the Madonna from Vimperk.