The visual theme to the album sleeve and promo shots, photographed by Jonas Åkerlund, was shot at the Californian hotel The Madonna Inn.

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.

The Madonna Inn is a motel in San Luis Obispo, California.

The Inn was created by Alex Madonna, a successful construction magnate and entrepreneur ( d. April 2004 ), and his wife Phyllis.

By 1982 the Madonna Inn was already well known, and Alex Madonna was quoted as saying, " Anybody can build one room and a thousand like it.

The Madonna Inn provided the backdrop for an episode of ABC's reality series The Bachelor.

In the season 14 episode that aired on January 25, 2010, pilot Jake Pavelka and the nine remaining women take a road trip up the California coast, visit the Oceano Dunes, and stay overnight at the Madonna Inn.

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He also worked as a dishwasher with his brother and Lorenzo in the famous Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo.

Around 1958, a local business owner, Alex Madonna purchased a ranch on a portion of the slopes of Cerro San Luis Obispo, and constructed the now famous Madonna Inn at its base.

Leeton holds a number of town landmarks, including the Roxy Theatre, War Memorial, Madonna Place, St Peter's Church, and the historic Hydro Motor Inn which are located in the centre of town.

1993: At the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards, Madonna opened the show in a gender-bending performance of her song " Bye Bye Baby ," in which Madonna and her two back up singers, dressed in tuxedos and top hats, danced with women in corsets in a choreographed, highly sexual routine.

Madonna opened the show talking about her experiences with Michael Jackson.

The stadium has also been host to Madonna on two occasions, the first in July 2006 when she opened the UK leg of her Confessions Tour, and most recently in August 2008 when she kicked off her Sticky & Sweet Tour at the stadium.

The entire complex was sold to a developer who subsequently razed the entire complex, while the new " St. Joseph Village " opened in 2005 on the site of the former Madonna High School and now operates at 4021 W. Belmont Avenue.

The first show of the 1986-1987 season opened with Madonna, host of the previous season opener, telling the audience that the entire 1985-1986 season had been a " horrible dream ," just as Dallas had done a few weeks earlier ( marking the second time J. R. Ewing and company were parodied during a tumultuous time on SNL ).

The entire complex was sold to a developer who subsequently razed the entire complex, while the new " St. Joseph Village " opened in 2005 on the site of the former Madonna High School and now operates at 4021 W. Belmont Avenue.

The official opening of the stadium was held on April 13, 1990, when popstar Madonna opened her Blond Ambition Tour at the venue.

Rae & Christian hit the festival circuit with full force and performed at some of the most prestigious events in the world such as Glastonbury, Roskilde, V Festival and Rae opened for Madonna with Texas at the Brixton Music Academy.

On August 27, 2003, Madonna opened the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards performing a medley of " Like a Virgin / Hollywood " with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Missy Elliott.

On August 27, 2003, Madonna opened the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards performing a medley of " Like a Virgin / Hollywood " with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Missy Elliott.

Madonna opened the 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards and the 2006 Grammy Awards with " Hung Up ".

In 2004, Madonna opened her Re-Invention World Tour with the song and was included in the 2005 documentary I'm Going to Tell You a Secret, it was later released on the live album to accompany it.

" What It Feels Like for a Girl " opens with Madonna in a motel room, getting ready for a night out, and it all seems simple and pleasant enough.

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It lies on the site where the Madonna appeared to Pietro Falco, healing his wounds.

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 ).

Radio stations nationwide began to play hits by artists like TKA, Sweet Sensation, Exposé and Sa-Fire on the same playlists as Michael Jackson and Madonna.

In later tradition the number of icons of Mary attributed to Luke would greatly multiply ; the Salus Populi Romani, the Theotokos of Vladimir, the Theotokos Iverskaya of Mount Athos, the Theotokos of Tikhvin, the Theotokos of Smolensk and the Black Madonna of Częstochowa are examples, and another is in the cathedral on St Thomas Mount, which is believed to be one of the seven painted by St. Luke the Evangelist and brought to India by St. Thomas.

The museums hold various works, including a gorgeous wooden crucifix by an unknown artist of the Sienese school, two beautiful 15th century wooden sculptures, including one of an incredibly moving Madonna by an anonymous artist which has become the symbol of Montalcino on the various posters and pubblicity, and several other sculptures in terracotta which appear to be of the Della Robbia school.

Madonna and Child by Duccio, tempera and gold on wood, 1284, Siena

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

Built between 1386 and 1577, it hosts the world's largest collection of marble statues and has a widely visible golden Madonna statue on top of the spire, nicknamed by the people of Milan as Madunina ( the little Madonna ), that became one of the symbols of the city.

" In paintings such as " The Madonna of Port Lligat " ( first version ) ( 1949 ) and " Corpus Hypercubus " ( 1954 ), Dalí sought to synthesize Christian iconography with images of material disintegration inspired by nuclear physics .< ref > Salvador Dalí Bio, Art on 5th.

Gassman's debut in the commedia all ' italiana genre was rather accidental, in Mario Monicelli's I soliti ignoti ( Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958 ).

* I soliti ignoti ( Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958 )

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.

By the 19th century, the site of Tyndaris was wholly deserted, but the name was retained by a church, which crowned the most elevated point of the hill on which the city formerly stood, and was still called the Madonna di Tindaro.

Villefranche and Montalban were stormed by Conti on 20 April, a desperate fight took place at Peyre-Longue on 18 July ( second Battle of Casteldelfino ) and the King of Sardinia was defeated in a great Battle at Madonna dell ' Olmo ( 30 September ) near Coni ( Cuneo ).

She also placed at number 134 on their list of the " 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons of All Time ", number seven on the " 100 Greatest Women In Music ", and at number two on the " 50 Greatest Women of the Video Era ", behind Madonna.

The magazine ranked her at number seven on their Hot 100 50th Anniversary " Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists ", making her the third most successful female artist in the history of the chart, following Madonna and Mariah Carey.

The Madonna with Child portrays the Child being displayed to the faithful, on a throne flanked by two sphinxes, allegorical figures of knowledge.

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

The 1987 movie Who's That Girl ?, starring Madonna, is also loosely based on Bringing Up Baby.

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