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There are a large number of articles on individual works of various sorts in Category:Virgin Mary in art and its sub-category. The term "Madonna" is sometimes used to refer to representations of Mary that were not created by Italians. A small selection of examples include:

  • Golden Madonna of Essen, the earliest large-scale sculptural example in Western Europe and a precedent for the polychrome wooden processional sculptures of Romanesque France, a type known as Throne of Wisdom.
  • Madonna of humility depicting a Madonna sitting on the ground, or low cushions
  • Madonna and Child, a painting by Duccio di Buoninsegna, from around the year 1300.
  • The Black Madonna of Częstochowa (Czarna Madonna or Matka Boska Częstochowska in Polish) icon, which was, according to legend, painted by St. Luke the Evangelist on a cypress table top from the house of the Holy Family.
  • Madonna and Child with Flowers, possibly one of two works begun by the artist.
  • Madonna Eleusa (of tenderness) has been depicted both in the Eastern and Western churches.
  • Madonna of the Steps, a relief by Michelangelo.
  • Madonna della seggiola, by Raphael
  • Madonna with the Long Neck, by Parmigianino.
  • The Madonna of Port Lligat, the name of two paintings by Salvador Dalí created in 1949 and 1950.

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    Not “Seeing is Believing” you ninny, but “Believing is Seeing.” For modern art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text.
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    Not “Seeing is Believing” you ninny, but “Believing is Seeing.” For modern art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text.
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