Balancing these are numberless images of devotional scenes, the Nativity, the Madonna and other religious figures.
The Madonna has a pale, heart-shaped face, tiny pert nose, light distant eyes, and small perfect mouths.
The Madonna has appeared on the walls of a nearby bank and on the mirror of the Gonzalez family home.
To explain the painting's long absence, the Soviets claimed the Madonna needed major restoration work before it could return to Dresden.
Peter's Basilica and the shrine devoted to the Madonna where Francis went to pray on one of his first walks as pope.
But the exhibit displays a page from the gallery's 1954 guestbook with irate entries by visitors demanding to see the Madonna again.
In August 2006, Oslo police recovered both the Scream and The Madonna.
In August 2004, another version of The Scream was stolen in Oslo along with Munch's The Madonna, this time from the Munch Museum.
The 12 minutes or so mini-concert proved the Madonna remains an original and that she can outperformed many of the singers working today, even those half her age.
The exhibit includes other canvases depicting the Madonna, as well as prints and photographs that attest to the role mechanical reproduction played in the popularization of the painting.
Ecclestone made the comments on a visit to Ferrari's annual publicity event at the Madonna di Campiglio ski resort, where he wore a red jacket resembling official Ferrari team kit.
The exhibition includes one of these gifts, the head of a woman identified as Cleopatra (c. 1532-33), which like the Madonna and Child has passages so finely worked that any sign of the artist's hand has disappeared.
By March, the weather may start to warm up and he should be able to enjoy the gardens and feed the goldfish in a pond near a statue of the Madonna where he often liked to visit.
Examples such as the Madonna and Child provide insight into how Michelangelo's drawings became so famous in his own day that such literary figures as Pietro Aretino repeatedly beseeched him to send any piece of paper from his hand.
The house is one of the Dali triad that includes the Dali Theatre-Museum in Figueres and the Gala Dali Castle-House Museum in Pubol, but Portlligat is where the famous Surrealist lived from 1930 to 1982 and where he created works like The Madonna of Portlligat.
There are no sketches or documents relating to the Sistine Madonna's composition, but the museum fills this gap by exhibiting several other Raphaels, including the famous portrait (on loan from the Uffizi) of a melancholy Julius II slumped in his red throne and a portrait of the noblewomen Donna Velata, whose noble features may have inspired Raphael's depiction of Mary in the Sistine Madonna.
But you can steal away from all that and refresh yourself in the cool and dark of the chapel beneath the Black Madonna and the lamps hung there by Crusaders and the bell that was said to ring miraculously every time storm-tossed sailors were saved by the Virgin of Rocamadour.
Those who were lucky enough to attend the premiere applauded Madonna and the others for their performances.
You don't have to believe that legend, but Henry Plantagenet, later Henry II of England, husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine and the father of Lionhearted, did, and he came here to pray to the Black Madonna that still looks down on those who come to the little chapel by the tomb where the hermit's body was found.
The Sistine Madonna remained in Moscow for a decade, along with thousands of other items from the Dresden collection.
But a clutch of Western development officials I've been talking to all acknowledge that the "Madonna Incident" points towards a more general shift - already in progress - away from the top-down aid of past decades and towards a new focus on policy development, partnership and business.
It is ironic that the Sistine Madonna's most famous aspect is not its emotionally complex portrait of Mary and Jesus, but rather the cherubs propping themselves up on an altar at the base of the composition.
In telling the story, Madonna takes on the voice of a slightly bossy teacher, telling her readers to not interrupt and to listen carefully.
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Childhood family jaunts included trips to the shrine of the Black Madonna, Our Lady of Altotting.
Howson is best known for paintings of the Bosnian war and the singer Madonna.
For the anniversary show, the Sistine Madonna has been outfitted with an impressive new frame.
During World War II, the Nazis moved the Sistine Madonna out of Dresden for safe-keeping.
He is also known for his distinctive figurative paintings of the Bosnian war and the singer Madonna.
His favorite so far, he said, is the Black Madonna, a revered icon housed in a monastery in Czestochowa, Poland.
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Faint praise, if ever you've heard it, but at least it doesn't force me to listen to the same Madonna song over and over.
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