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(Latin: mea domina, my mistress)

A name given to representations of the Blessed Virgin in art and occasionally used as an invocation in devotions to her. In painting and sculpture she is invariably represented with the Christ Child in her arms, alone or surrounded by an adoring group. In early Christian times, there were crude representations of her in the catacombs. In the 15th and 16th centuries she was a favorite subject of painters and sculptors. Noted masters who have represented her are:

Fra Angelico
Fra Bartolommeo
Bellini, Giovanni
Botticelli
Cimabue, Giovanni
Correggio
Dolci, Carlo
Zampieri, Domenichino
Eyck, Jan van
Giotto di Bondone
Holbein, Hans the Elder
Lippi, Fra Filippo
Memling, Hans
Albertinelli
Alvise Vivarini
Andrea da Solario
Antonio da Solario
Antonio Vivarini
Baroccio
Bellini, Jacopo
Boltraffio
Borgognone
Cariani
Carpaccio
Cignani
Cima da Conegliano
Credi
Crivelli
Da Vinci
Della Robbia
El Greco
Ferrari
Feuerbach
Francia
Lochner
Loefen
Lotto
Luini
Mantegna
Master of the Moulins
Mengs
Moretto
Morone
Murillo
Pacchiarotto
Perugino, Pinturicchio
Raphael
Reni
Rubens
San Severino
Santi
Sarto
Sassoferrato
Sesto
Signorelli
Squarcione
Titian
Trevisant
Van Dyck
Verocchio
Veronese

Among famous paintings of the Madonna are

Sistine Madonna
Madonna della Sedia di Foligno
Madonna of the Goldfinch
Madonna of the Harpies

Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Madonna'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/m/madonna.html. 1910.

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