in particular against a Madonna portrayed in a voluptuous style and modeled, according to gossip, upon the painter's mistress.

In this specialized sense " Black Madonna " does not refer to images of the Virgin Mary portrayed as specifically ethnically black, which are popular in Africa and areas with large black populations, such as Brazil and the United States, but rather refers to all portrayals of the Virgin Mary with dark skin that were created during this time period.

2003: At the 2003 Video Music Awards, Madonna portrayed a groom kissing her brides, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, on stage.

Actors Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi and Jeff Goldblum were the most likely candidates for the role, and would have appeared alongside Harley Quinn, who would have been portrayed by singer Madonna.

The music video portrayed a different persona of Madonna, rather than her film character for which it was released.

The video portrayed a different image of Madonna rather than her real self.

The accompanying music video portrayed Madonna as a woman walking in an hotel hallway, looking distressed and tired from work, until being sexually seduced to having sex with a mysterious man and woman.

It portrayed a storyline where Madonna is trying to tell her father about her pregnancy.

" Debby Miller from Rolling Stone, felt that the song portrayed Madonna as a more practical girl than previous female singers.

A short intro of " Open Your Heart " lead to " Nobody's Perfect " where Madonna was portrayed to be sacrificed for her sins.

Notably, the Madonna is still portrayed larger in size than the human figures, a tradition in medieval painting.

The music video portrayed Madonna sailing down the riverways of Venice in a gondola, as well as roaming around a palace wearing a white wedding dress.

Madonna was portrayed as a knowing virgin, a figment of the pornographic mind, as she walked through marble rooms, wearing a wedding gown.

The music video portrayed Madonna dancing in front of a white background, accompanied by her dancers.

Scholars noted that in the video, Madonna portrayed herself as narcissistic and an ambiguous character.

Dance historian Sally Banes, in her book Before, between, and beyond: three decades of dance writing, noted that the video portrayed Madonna as both the subject and the object of the song.

The accompanying music video portrayed Madonna with a Latin-American man as her boyfriend.

In contrast, phallic symbols portrayed in the Hispanic neighbourhood included a street lamp which Madonna embraces and a pool cue held erect by Madonna's boyfriend.

Madonna wanted a raw documentary look for the video which allowed her to be portrayed more realistically.

In the 1994 film Madonna: Innocence Lost, Barbone was portrayed by Wendie Malick.

It was promoted by a music video shot by Jean-Baptiste Mondino, which portrayed Madonna in an empty suite of an abandoned hotel, and was shot in a single frame.

Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

People can appreciate a Renaissance Madonna for aesthetic reasons, but such objects often had ( and sometimes still have ) specific devotional functions.

Also in Lucca, in the October 1509, he painted by Albertinelli an altarpiece with Madonna and Child with Saints for the local cathedral.

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 ".

In 1887, Peano married Carola Crosio, the daughter of the Turin-based painter Luigi Crosio, known for painting the Refugium Peccatorum Madonna.

He is said to have painted pictures of the Virgin Mary ( for example, The Black Madonna of Częstochowa or Our Lady of Vladimir ) and of Peter and Paul.

To give two examples, the marble statue of Cristo della Minerva ( church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome ) was covered by added drapery, as it remains today, and the statue of the naked child Jesus in Madonna of Bruges ( The Church of Our Lady in Bruges, Belgium ) remained covered for several decades.

Petrarch's will ( dated April 4, 1370 ) leaves 50 florins to Boccaccio " to buy a warm winter dressing gown "; various legacies ( a horse, a silver cup, a lute, a Madonna ) to his brother and his friends ; his house in Vaucluse to its caretaker ; for his soul, and for the poor ; and the bulk of his estate to his son-in-law, Francescuolo da Brossano, who is to give half of it to " the person to whom, as he knows, I wish it to go "; presumably his daughter, Francesca, Brossano's wife.

The Punch Bowl, Mayfair was at one time jointly owned by Madonna and Guy Ritchie and is known for the number of present-day celebrities that have patronised it.

In January 2009, Robyn won a Swedish Grammis Award for Best Live Act 2008 ; in her acceptance speech, she said that Madonna was to thank for the prize.

His compositional efforts have included a number of film scores, notably a set of songs written for Warren Beatty's 1990 film version of Dick Tracy ; one song, " Sooner or Later ( I Always Get My Man )" ( as performed by Madonna ), won Sondheim an Academy Award.

Madonna was regarded as the most ground breaking female artist of the decade ; she was also noted for her many fashion incarnations.

The Isis cult in Rome was a template for the Christian Madonna Cult.

Madonna lived at the Chelsea in the early eighties, returning in 1992 to shoot photographs for her book, Sex, in room 822.

File: Raphaël-Étude Madone d ' Albe 1. jpg | Sheet with study for the Alba Madonna and other sketches

File: Raffaello, studi per madonne col bambino. jpg | Developing the composition for a Madonna and Child

Some scholars believe that Magdalena Offenburg, the model for the Darmstadt Madonna and for two portraits painted in Basel, was for a time Holbein's mistress.

The performance generated substantial praise for the " barefoot Madonna " with the otherworldly voice, and it was this appearance that led to Baez signing with Vanguard Records the following year although Columbia Records tried to sign her first.

In a dream-like sequence, Madonna rolls around in bed wearing skimpy lace underwear and a garter belt and stockings while various figures come and go.

During a Wayne's World sketch, Wayne ( Mike Myers ) and Garth ( Dana Carvey ) encounter a seductive Madonna lying on a bed in a hotel room during a fantasy dream sequence ( also filmed in black and white ).

During an abstract dream-like sequence, Andrei sees himself as the madman and has visions of his wife, the interpreter and the Madonna as being all one and the same.

During the final sequence, Madonna raps, with the repeated phrase " Push the button ".

The song was covered in the 2010 Glee episode " The Power of Madonna " by the cast, including Jonathan Groff, Jayma Mays, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Matthew Morrison, and Naya Rivera, during a dream sequence by their characters.

In the color sequence, Madonna sings, flirts and seduces the Hispanic guy who becomes her boyfriend.

The contrasting image of Madonna, first as a messy blonde in the Hispanic sequence and later as a fashioned glamorous blonde, suggested that one can construct one's own image and identity.

The dream sequence progresses with surreal and unusual clips, including Madonna in a pool with half-shown skulls.