The Black Madonna of Częstochowa, the inspiration typically used in the depiction of Erzulie Dantor

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.

Strictly speaking, the term " Madonna " should be used exclusively for Italian works, but has become applied much more widely.

* The Madonna enthroned is a type of image that dates from the Byzantine period and was used widely in Medieval and Renaissance times.

Its expense registers in the use of thin sheets of real gold leaf in all parts of the panel that are not covered with paint, a visual analogue not only to the costly sheaths that medieval goldsmiths used to decorate altars, but also a means of surrounding the image of the Madonna with illumination from oil lamps and candles.

The term " Madonna " is sometimes used to refer to representations of Mary that were not created by Italians.

New or cover versions such as John Paul Young's " Love Is in the Air " occur in Strictly Ballroom, Candi Staton's " Young Hearts Run Free " appear in Romeo + Juliet, and adaptations of artists such as Nat King Cole, Nirvana, Kiss, Elton John, Thelma Houston, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, T. Rex, David Bowie, Queen and The Police are used in Moulin Rouge!

Humility was a virtue extolled by Saint Francis of Assisi, and this form of Franciscan piety led to the artistic development of the Madonna of humility first used by them for contemplation.

An Austrian Fort ( now a church, the Santuario della Madonna di Lourdes ), was used to incarcerate and torture allied troops, Jews and anti-fascist suspects especially after 1943, when Verona became part of the Repubblica di Salò or " Social Republic ".

It can be used in a more diffuse sense as in, for example, the news headline " Madonna feels kinship with vilified Wallis Simpson ", to imply a felt similarity or empathy between two or more entities.

Prince's Paisley Park Studios was used both by Prince and for outside music production by artists such as Madonna, Boy George, the Fine Young Cannibals and Paula Abdul.

Madonna had adopted a garish, platinum blond hairstyle for the Who's That Girl movie which she used in the music video ; it was her way of reviving the comedy heroine of the 1930s Hollywood screwball comedies.

Ambrogio instead used color and patterns to move the figures forward, as seen in Madonna and Child.

At the 2006 Grammy Awards the Pepper's ghost technique was used to project Madonna with the virtual members of the band Gorillaz onto the stage in a " live " performance.

This location was also used prominently in the 1993 film Body of Evidence starring Madonna and Willem Dafoe.

In 2012, Madonna used the arena to rehearse her MDNA World Tour.

In 2004, during the Re-Invention World Tour, Madonna performed the song wearing a Scottish kilt, and a T-shirt that said " Kabbalists do it Better " on most of the shows, and " Brits do it Better " and " Irish do it Better " T-shirts during the shows in the United Kingdom and Ireland, reminiscent of the one she used in the song's music video.

The book is largely presented in a style not far off from Andy Warhol's works, namely the famous shot on the metallized plastic cover of the book ( a colored reverse negative ), which Madonna also used as the cover of her Erotica album.

Unlike Madonna, however, Krusty apparently never appeared fully nude, as he quickly claimed that he " used a stunt butt.

* Madonna ( preset Piano 8 ' used in Vogue )

A calendar, which according to Suetonius was set up by the grammarian Marcus Verrius Flaccus in the imperial forum of Praeneste ( at the Madonna dell ' Aquila ), was discovered in 1771 in the ruins of the church of Saint Agapitus, where it had been used as building material.

Madonna used a 2-ton glitter ball that was embellished by 2 million dollars ' worth of Swarovski crystals for her Confessions Tour in 2006.

Madonna Wayne Gacy of Marilyn Manson used a Roland Axis-1 keytar for the music video for The Beautiful People as well as for some live sets.

The Louis Vuitton company carefully cultivates a celebrity following and has used famous models, musicians, and actors such as Keith Richards, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Sean Connery, Hayden Christensen and most recently Angelina Jolie in its marketing campaigns.

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.

The city has played host to many world-famous musical acts including Sting, Elton John, Madonna, George Michael, Metallica, Tiesto, Kylie Minogue, Depeche Mode, Rammstein, Rihanna, Roxette and Lady Gaga.

Relocated from central London in 1966, the studios played host to many of rock and pop's greatest stars down the decades, from The Beatles, who recorded the original tracks of " All You Need Is Love " in Barnes, to The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Queen, Eric Clapton, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Nilsson, The Verve, Massive Attack, Duran Duran, Coldplay, Madonna and Björk.

" Sarducci has appeared in four cold openings in the 1979 – 1980 season ( on episodes hosted by Steve Martin, Teri Garr, Elliott Gould, and Rodney Dangerfield ), two commercial parodies (" MX-5 Tampons " on the 1981 – 1982 Christmas episode hosted by Bill Murray and " Bocce Ball My Way " on the last episode of the 1985 – 1986 season hosted by Anjelica Huston and Billy Martin ), and two monologues on the 1985 – 1986 season ( the first hosted by Madonna in a pretaped sketch showing Madonna's wedding to Sean Penn ( played by Robert Downey, Jr .) and the second on the Christmas episode of the 1985 – 1986 season hosted by Garr as Sarducci's alter ego, Pope Maurice ).

He soon became a major international celebrity, starring in Big Deal on Madonna Street ( 1958 ); and in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita ( 1960 ) with Anita Ekberg, where he played a disillusioned and self-loathing tabloid columnist who spends his days and nights exploring Rome's high society.

Madonna played the part of Bruna, a Lower East Side resident who lives with three " love slaves " ( one male, one female, one transgender ).

VH1 catered to adult top 40, including musicians such as Ace of Base, Melissa Etheridge, Sheryl Crow, Lisa Loeb, Seal, and other slightly more rock-oriented popular music than what it had originally played, though favorites such as Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Cher, Elton John, Madonna, Janet Jackson, and Céline Dion, still received heavy play as well.

She then played a Madonna body double named Tina in the independent film The Real Blonde.

* Sting and Madonna are the only international popstars to have played dates at Maracanã on distinct occasions.

Madonna played the venue on November 6, 1993, with the Girlie Show in front of 120. 000 people, and then again 15 years later on December 14 and 15, 2008, as part of the Sticky & Sweet Tour, selling over 107. 000 tickets.

Madonna wore the false ponytail ( based on a Tressy Tessy doll Madonna had played with as a child ) as she felt it added a femminine playfulness / contrast to the hard fashions she was wearing.

A string of popular but critically dismissed films followed, including The Magic Bow in which Granger played Niccolò Paganini and Madonna of the Seven Moons ( 1945 ) which the critic Leslie Halliwell called " novelettish balderdash killed stone dead by stilted production ".

Ndegeocello played bass on the song " I'd Rather be Your Lover " for Madonna on her album Bedtime Stories.

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.

On December 3, 1990, ABC's Nightline played the video in its entirety, then interviewed Madonna live about the video's sexual content and censorship.

In the video Madonna played a tomboy, dressed in jeans, a black leather jacket, and a slogan T-shirt with the caption " Italians do it better ".

) An hour of this footage was then compiled for a film that Madonna had played during a party she gave for the release of Sex at New York City's Industria Superstudio.

Madonna played eight sold-out nights here during her Confessions Tour in 2006, the 15 & 16 August were filmed for The Confessions Tour DVD.

For example, in The False Madonna ( 1932 ), she played a jaded society woman nursing a terminally ill child who learns to appreciate the importance of hearth and home.

Its accompanying music video was directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino and featured Madonna as a cowgirl walking down an automated treadmill walkway in front of a projection screen, with cowboys dancing and playing on the sand in the video played on the screen behind her.

The video features Madonna walking down an automated treadmill walkway in front of a projection screen, while cowboys dance and play on the sand in the video played on the screen behind her.

Madonna played a special ( not during a concert tour ) performance at the venue in 2000, to promote the release of her album, Music.

Madonna played to a sold-out Ford Field on November 18, 2008, as part of her record-breaking Sticky and Sweet Tour.