* Madonna ( art ), pictorial or sculptured representations of Mary, Mother of Jesus

Today, the Galleria Nazionale dell ' Umbria in Perugia houses a number of masterpieces, including the Madonna with Child and six Angels, which represents the Renaissance Marian art of Duccio.

Lorenzetti's 1330 Madonna dei Tramonti also reflects the ongoing influence of Giotto on his Marian art, midway through his career.

No image ( in either the Western or the Eastern Church ) permeates Christian art as the image of Madonna and Child.

While Mary, the Mother of Jesus, may be referred to as " the Madonna " in other contexts, in art the term is applied specifically to an artwork in which Mary, with or without the infant Jesus, is the focus, and central figure of the picture.

Many of the most renowned painters and sculptors in the history of art have turned their skills toward the creation of Madonna images.

The Madonna of humility by Domenico di Bartolo, 1433, is considered one of the most innovative devotional images from the early Renaissance art | Renaissance.

The earliest surviving image in a Western illuminated manuscript of the Madonna and Child comes from the Book of Kells of about 800 ( there is a similar carved image on the lid of St Cuthbert's coffin of 698 ) and, though magnificently decorated in the style of Insular art, the drawing of the figures can only be described as rather crude compared to Byzantine work of the period.

Leonardo da Vinci, a Study ( art ) | study of the Head of Mary, the mother of Jesus | Madonna, c. 1484 AD.

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Madonna and Child by Taddeo di Bartolo, 1400, an example of Roman Catholic Marian art | Marian art

Madonna ( art ) | Madonna by Pompeo Batoni, 1742.

Madonna ( art ) | Virgin and Angels by Bouguereau, an example of Roman Catholic Marian art | Marian art

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It houses, besides the tomb of Paolo Rucellai ( 15th century ) and the marble statue of the Madonna and the Child by Nino Pisano, several art treasures such as remains of frescoes by the Maestro di Santa Cecilia ( end 13th-beginning 14th century ).

An example of a Madonna ( art ) | Madonna, commissioned by the Catholic Church during the Renaissance.

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In Madonna and Child, there is a clear debt to Byzantine art.

The image of the Madonna is noted for its frontality, which is a typical characteristic of Byzantium art.

Image: Fouquet Madonna. jpg | Madonna Surrounded by Seraphim and Cherubim by Jean Fouquet

File: Edvard Munch-Madonna ( 1894-1895 ). jpg | Madonna.

Luke and the The Madonna | Madonna, Altar of the Guild of St. Luke, Hermen Rode, Lübeck 1484.

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.

File: Duccio. The-Madonna-and-Child-with-Saints-149. jpg | Madonna and Child with saints polyptych, Duccio, Tempera and gold on wood, 1311 – 1318

File: Virgin and child with four saints -- detail -- cortona 1435. jpg | Madonna by Sassetta, Cortona, Tempera on wood, 1435

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File: Domenico ghirlandaio, amerigo vespucci, ognissanti, Firenze. jpg | Domenico Ghirlandaio, Amerigo Vespucci, part of the Madonna della Misericordia at the Ognissanti church in Florence, c. late 15th century

File: Raffael 030. jpg | The Madonna of the Meadow, ca.

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

Image: Madonnadelrosario Nicola Porta. jpg | Madonna and rosary by Nicola Porta

Image: Guido Reni 057. jpg | Madonna with rosary, by Guido Reni, 1596

Image: Maria Anger-Seitenaltar 2. jpg | Madonna offering Saint Dominic rosary by August Palme, 1860

Image: Bartolomé Esteban Perez Murillo 020. jpg | Madonna with the Rosary by Murillo, 1650

Image: 545px-Madonna del Rosario formiello-particolare. JPG | Madonna of the Rosary statute, Naples, Italy

Image: N-s-dos-passos-14. jpg | Rosary Madonna, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Image: Rosary-Madonna-Atzwang. jpg | Madonna with Rosary, Italy

Image: Rosary-Madonna-Mersa. jpg | Madonna with Rosary by Josef Mersa, Italy

Our Lady of Sorrows | The Madonna in Sorrow, by Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato | Sassoferrato, 17th century

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 ".

The Society of Jesus is consecrated under the patronage of Madonna Della Strada, a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and it is led by a Superior General, currently Adolfo Nicolás.

When the Tzu-Chi Foundation, a Taiwanese Buddhist organisation, noticed the similarity between this form of Guanyin and the Virgin Mary, the organisation commissioned a portrait of Guanyin and a baby that resembles the typical Roman Catholic Madonna and Child painting.

The High Renaissance collection includes Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Virgin and Child with St. Anne, St. John the Baptist, and Madonna of the Rocks.

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.

* Fra Filippo Lippi ( Madonna with Child and Two Angels, Incoronation of the Virgin )

The years between 1434 and 1436 are generally considered his high point when he produced works including the Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, Lucca Madonna and Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele.

The church is renowned for the " Madonna di Costantinopoli " ( Virgin of Costantinopole ) inside.

Over 1, 000, 000 pilgrims visit the Black Madonna statue in the Chapel of Grace in Altötting, Germany every year, where for more than 500 years miracles have been attributed to praying to the Virgin Mary at that shrine.

* " Virgin and Child with Four Angels " or " Chellini Madonna " ( 1456 ), Victoria and Albert Museum

It is a three-aisle late Gothic church, erected between 1466 and 1502, which boasts a late-Gothic painting entitled Madonna with a Roseor the Holy Virgin of Beautiful Lovefrom the 16th century.

The city is known for the famous Pauline monastery of Jasna Góra, which is the home of the Black Madonna painting ( Polish: Jasnogórski Cudowny obraz Najświętszej Maryi Panny Niepokalanie Poczętej ), a shrine to the Virgin Mary.

Two years later the monastery received its famous Black Madonna icon of the Virgin Mary and in subsequent years became a centre of pilgrimage, contributing to the growth of the adjacent town.

* Madonna has performed at the Garden 29 times in her career, beginning in 1985 with The Virgin Tour.

Some examples of honoring motherhood include the Madonna or Blessed Virgin Mother Mary for Catholics.

It is believed that he had known the work of Leonardo da Vinci in the form of prints made and circulated among northern artists ( his Madonna and Child with the Lamb, inspired by The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, reflects da Vinci's inflences ).

* Virgin and Child with an Angel ( Madonna del Latte ) ( date unknown )

Images of the Madonna and the Madonna and Child or Virgin and Child are pictorial or sculptured representations of Mary, Mother of Jesus, either alone, or more frequently, with the infant Jesus.

Madonna is a medieval Italian term for a noble or otherwise important woman, and has long been used commonly in reference to images of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus.

Iconography varies between public images and private images supplied on a smaller scale and meant for personal devotion in the chamber: the Virgin suckling the Child ( such as the Madonna Litta ) is an image largely confined to private devotional icons.

The roughly half-dozen varied icons of the Virgin and Child in Rome from the 6th-8th century form the majority of the representations surviving from this period ; " isolated images of the Madonna and Child ... are so common ... to the present day in Catholic and Orthodox tradition, that it is difficult to recover a sense of the novelty of such images in the early Middle Ages, at least in western Europe ".

Very few early images of the Virgin Mary survive, though the depiction of the Madonna has roots in ancient pictorial and sculptural traditions that informed the earliest Christian communities throughout Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East.