Half-length paintings of the Madonna and Child are also common in Italian Renaissance painting, particularly in Venice.

Images that have a narrative content, including those of the many scenes which make up the Life of the Virgin, are not correctly referred to as " Madonnas " but are given a title that reflects the scene such as the Annunciation to Mary.

Some Madonnas statues are placed around Italian towns and villages as a matter of protection, or as a commemoration of a reported miracle.

Double-pointed needles are depicted in a number of 14th century oil paintings, typically called Knitting Madonnas, depicting Mary knitting with double-pointed needles ( Rutt, 2003 ).

The Black Madonnas are generally found in Catholic areas.

There are about 450 – 500 Black Madonnas in Europe, depending on how they are classified.

They are mostly of religious and pious subjects such as Madonnas or a Deposition, used for worship at home.

In this form the Madonnas of Munich and Vienna ( 1527 ), the likeness of a girl weighing gold pieces ( Berlin ), and the portraits of the children of the king of Denmark at Hampton Court, are fair specimens of his skill.

Amsler's principal engravings are: The Triumphal March of Alexander the Great, and a full-length Christ, after the sculptures of Thorwaldsen and Dannecker ; the Entombment of Christ, and two Madonnas after Raphael ; and the Union between Religion and the Arts, after Overbeck, his last work, on which he spent six years.

Despite his difficulties, he would make several further attempts at a musical career, going on to form The Madonnas in 1994 ( splitting the band in 1995 ) and subsequently the similarly short-lived, Belgium-based Eyedreams in 1996.

One of the most distinguished and elaborated of the Cranach's Madonnas.

This madonna represents a turning point of the Quito School of Art ( one of the most renowned of the Americas ) because it shows a virgin in movement that is practically dancing in contrast with the traditional static Madonnas that were produced during the 18th century.

But most of his paintings represent Madonnas enthroned among the elect, and in these subjects he observes a gently animated symmetry.

The variety in such statues is as great as in other Madonna images ; one finds Madonnas holding grapes ( in reference to the Song of Songs 1: 14, translated as " My lover is to me a cluster of henna blossoms " in the NIV ), " immaculate " Madonnas in pure, perfect white without child or accessories, and Madonnas with roses symbolizing her life determined by the mysteries of faith.

* The Madonnas of Leningrad, by Debra Dean, tells the story of Marina, a grandmother in Seattle with Alzheimer's, intertwined with her youthful experience as a docent at the Hermitage Museum during the siege of Leningrad during WWII.

Some authors have also identified him as the Master of the Marble Madonnas, although the assertion is by no means certain.

He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits.

In his early career, he painted several Madonnas ; his first woodcut ( 1505 ) represents the Virgin and three saints in prayer before a crucifix.

Sometimes de Heem painted, alone or with others, Madonnas or portraits in garlands of fruit or flowers.

It is one of the black Madonnas of Europe, hence its familiar Catalan name, la Moreneta (" The little dark-skinned one ").

*" Master of the Filipino Madonnas in the 40s "-Simon Saulog's painting of Maria Makiling.

Madonna and Child with Flowers, otherwise known as the Benois Madonna, could be one of two Madonnas Leonardo da Vinci had commented on having started in October 1478.

Water, air, fruit, poetry, music, the human form -- these things are important to Persians, and they experience them with an intense and discriminating awareness.

Examples are in public utilities, making military aircraft and accessories, or where the investment and risk for a proprietorship would be too great for a much needed project impossible to achieve by any means other than the corporate form, e.g. constructing major airports or dams.

We are reminded, however, that freedom of thought and discussion, the unfettered exchange of ideas, is basic under our form of government.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

we accord it its place there, and in Lawrence's treatment we are given the innocent fantasy of a child, in fact, the form in which oedipal love is expressed in childhood.

When combined with the metaphysical notion that pure forms of this universe are best appreciated when least embodied in a material substratum, it becomes clear that while earth will be dross on a scale of material-formal ratios, celestial bodies will be of a subtle, quickened, ethereal existence, in whose embodiment pure form will be the dominant component and matter will be absent or remain subsidiary.

They are very small, and in the form of haystacks, without either chimney or windows.

These conceptions and the manner in which they were transposed into poetry or engendered by poetic form are intrinsic to western life from the time of Aeschylus to that of Shakespeare.

People who take us for suckers are like the Westerner who had on exhibit his superior marksmanship in the form of a number of bull's-eye achievements.

Production assistance often takes the form of locating tools or materials which are urgently needed.

If there are any major restrictions, they usually can be obtained in printed form.

And like this English master, Mason realizes his subjects in large, simplified masses which, though they seem effortless, are in reality the result of skilled design born of hard work and a thorough distillation of the natural form that inspired them.

Bare feet are better for such work than any form of slipper.

True terminal bronchioles comprise the most frequent form taken by the distal airways in types 1 and 3, although small numbers of poorly developed respiratory bronchioles are present.

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The beliefs of a religion also reflecting the values are expressed in creeds, dogmas, and doctrines, and form what Durkheim calls a credo.

The dictionary is a form dictionary, at least in the sense that complete forms are used as the basis for matching text occurrences with dictionary entries.

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The only requirements on dictionary information made by the text-lookup operation are that each form represented by the dictionary be available for lookup in the text-form list and that information for each form be available in a sequence identical with the sequence of the forms.

Two very useful ways for modifying a form-dictionary are the addition to the dictionary of complete paradigms rather than single forms and the application of a single change to more than one dictionary form.

And while all concerned are members of the literal public, somewhat less than all concerned, although still a majority, form the quotation marked `` public ''.

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

While costs on this order are sometimes separately charged for in residential and commercial rates, in the form of a mere `` service charge '', they are more frequently wholly or partly covered by a minimum charge which entitles the consumer to a very small amount of gas or electricity with no further payment.