* 1894 – 1895 — Madonna

In a People magazine online poll — " The Most Beautiful People of 1998 " — John Linnell finished ninth ( with 4, 189 votes, eight ahead of Sarah Michelle Gellar, and 1, 038 behind Madonna ).

A legal battle ensued when first Madonna, then Kim Basinger backed out of the title role — eventually Basinger was the subject of an adverse jury verdict for over $ 8. 1 million dollars.

For his home town of Castelfranco, Giorgione painted the Castelfranco Madonna, an altarpiece in sacra conversazione form — Madonna enthroned, with saints on either side forming an equilateral triangle.

1968 — The subject has been described as in a " Venus-on-the-half-shell pose " or as " a Madonna turned in contrapposto ... with his penis hidden between his legs ".

* Saint Mary's College ( Michigan ), Orchard Lake, Michigan, defunct — now known as Madonna University

On June 14, 2004, the dispute was resolved when Maverick shares owned by Madonna and Dashev were purchased — which effectively exiled the two of them from the company as it was now a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

According to Vincent Canby of The New York Times, Madonna at that time was shrewdly pragmatic about her persona and appearance — resembling Marilyn Monroe, but with the " comic tartness " of Jean Harlow.

Believed to be one of his earliest works — begun as early as 1310 — is the Madonna and Child with Saint Francis and John the Baptist, not in the Lower Church but in the chapel of Saint John the Baptist.

The entire nudity ( which led to the video being banned ) occurs when a topless dominatrix-type woman, played by model, Wallis Franken — suspenders partly covering her breasts — appears and roughly grabs a bound man ( the same man who is with Madonna ) by the hair.

Madonna Della Strada or Santa Maria Della Strada — the Italian for Our Lady of the Way, or Our Lady of the Road — is the name of a late 15th or 16th century image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, enshrined at the Church of the Gesu in Rome, motherchurch of the Society of Jesus religious order of the Roman Catholic Church.

The town of Harmony began as a dairy settlement in the late 19th century started by Swiss immigrants living near the Italian border — the same background as many of San Luis Obispo County's founders, including the Madonna Family, owners of the Madonna Inn located in San Luis Obispo, CA.

In early 1989, Madonna signed an endorsement deal with Pepsi, who introduced her new single " Like a Prayer " in the lavish " Make A Wish " commercial — the first time a pop single had debuted in an advertisement and the first time such a commercial was given a worldwide satellite premiere.

As a result, Pepsi withdrew the advertisement and canceled the endorsement deal — although Madonna was allowed to retain her US $ 5 million fee — but the controversy only heightened interest in the single and the album ( also titled Like A Prayer ).

* Dick Tracy — Breathless Mahoney ( Madonna ) appears in a shiny black skintight gown

* Baby Smith — an actress whose screen name was Pamela Ponti ; four children: Ronaldo ( Ronnie ), Enrico ( Eric ), Madonna ( Dana ), and Jeffrey ( Epi ).

* Madonna — Marie

After Mr. Mister broke up, Page released a solo record and a band record as Third Matinee ( with Patrick Leonard ) in 1994, and continued to write hit songs for many other artists including " I'll Remember " ( with Leonard and Madonna ), a 1993 hit for Madonna.

It contains the U. S. No. 2 hit single and theme song " I'll Remember " by pop singer Madonna.

#" I'll Remember ( Theme from With Honors )" – Madonna

It was written by Madonna and Patrick Leonard who had previously worked together on the albums True Blue ( 1986 ), Who's That Girl ( 1987 ), Like a Prayer ( 1989 ) and I'm Breathless ( 1990 ) and the single " I'll Remember " ( 1994 ).

* " I'll Remember " performed by Madonna – With Honors ( film )

* Madonna music albums: Like a Prayer, I'm Breathless, The Immaculate Collection, Erotica, Bedtime Stories, Something to Remember and Ray of Light.

Madonna recorded a cover version of " I Want You " with British trip-hop group Massive Attack for her ballads compilation album Something to Remember and the Marvin Gaye tribute album Inner City Blues: The Music of Marvin Gaye in 1995.

" One More Chance " is a pop ballad song by American singer Madonna from the ballads compilation Something to Remember.

It was produced by Leonard and Madonna for her third studio album True Blue, released in mid-1986, later appearing as a remix on the 1990 compilation album The Immaculate Collection, in its original form on the 1995 ballads compilation album Something to Remember, and most recently on her third compilation album Celebration ( again in its original form ), released in September 2009.

* The Sanctuary of the Madonna della Salute or of Monteortone ( built from 1428 ).

In 1894, he enlarged the spectrum of motifs by adding Anxiety, Ashes, Madonna and Women in Three Stages ( from innocence to old age ).

In 2004, another version of The Scream, along with one of Madonna, were stolen from the Munch Museum in a daring daylight robbery.

Italian Comedy is generally considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's I soliti Ignoti ( Big Deal on Madonna Street ) and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's Divorzio all ' Italiana ( Divorce Italian Style, 1961 ).

In 2005 Coleman appeared in WWE Superstar John Cena's music video for his single Bad, Bad Man ( from the album You Can't See Me ), Coleman played the part of himself as a bad guy taking the 1980s pop stars Madonna and Michael Jackson hostage.

Campbell also argues that the image of the Virgin Mary was derived from the image of Isis and her child Horus: " The antique model for the Madonna, is Isis with Horus at her breast ".

Bands and artists from diverse genres have acknowledged the influence of Led Zeppelin, such as Madonna, Shakira, Lady Gaga, and Katie Melua.

Dante Alighieri, detail from a Luca Signorelli fresco in the chapel of Orvieto Cathedral # Chapel of the Madonna di San Brizio | San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto.

In 1989, Wright became involved with actor Sean Penn following his divorce from Madonna.

*" Words ", a song by Madonna from Erotica

* August – The iconic painting The Black Madonna of Czestochowa is brought from Jerusalem to the Jasna Góra monastery in Poland.

It houses the image of famous Greek Madonna, which was allegedly brought to Ravenna from Constantinople.

** " Madonna " ( song ), a song from the Secret EP

* " More ", by Madonna from I'm Breathless

Wöllflin detects the influence of the Madonna in Michelangelo's Doni Tondo in the kneeling figure on the right, but the rest of the composition is far removed from his style, or that of Leonardo.

" Steve Huey of Allmusic asserted that despite being born into a family of entertainers, Janet Jackson has managed to emerge a " superstar " in her own right, rivaling not only several female recording artists including Madonna and Whitney Houston, but also her brother, while " successfully her image from a strong, independent young woman to a sexy, mature adult.

Madonna is one of many artists who have borrowed from sexual minority cultures, including her appropriation of vogueing.

One of the earliest surviving oils on canvas is a French Madonna with angels from around 1410 in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.

Furthermore, in 1682 the celebration of 300 anniversary of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa brought thousands of pilgrims from both Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Silesia.

Noteworthy are a baptismal font ( 12th century ) and the Madonna di Capo Colonna, the icon of the Black Madonna which, according to the tradition, was brought from East in the first years of the Christian era.

* The artist Madonna refers in her song " Secret Garden " from the album Erotica to it being located somewhere in Fontainebleau.

* " Hollywood " ( Madonna song ), a song by Madonna from her 2003 album American Life

Around the mid-1990s, with the success of the big beat-sound exemplified by The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy in the UK, and spurred by the attention from mainstream artists, including Madonna in her collaboration with William Orbit on her album Ray of Light and Australian singer Dannii Minogue with her 1997 album Girl, music of this period began to be produced with a higher budget, increased technical quality, and with more layers than most other forms of dance music, since it was backed by major record labels and MTV as the " next big thing ".