In Christian art, a Madonna is a religious depiction of the Blessed Virgin Mary in a singular form or sometimes accompanied by the Child Jesus. These images are central icons for both the Catholic and
Madonna of the Book by Sandro Botticelli, 1480
Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Icon of the Virgin Mary, 16th century. St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai.
The Salus Populi Romani icon, overpainted in the 13th century, but going back to an underlying original dated to the 5th or 6th century
Madonna and Child by Filippo Lippi (15th century)
Theotokos is a title of Mary, mother of Jesus, used especially in Eastern Christianity. The usual Latin translations are Dei Genitrix or Deipara. Common English translations are "Mother of God" or "Go
Madonna (art)
…in the 17th century, primarily in reference to works of the Italian Renaissance. In an Eastern Orthodox context, such images are typically known as Theotokos. "Madonna" may be generally used of representations of Mary, with or without the infant Jesus, where she is the focus and central figure of the image…
An icon of the Theotokos of Kazan.
Byzantine mosaic of the enthroned Theotokos, Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, c. AD 560.
A mural in the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière in Lyon depicting Cyril of Alexandria defending his doctrine of one-nature in Christ and the term Theotokos at Ephesus, 431 AD. On the throne is the Virgin Mary and child Jesus.
The formerly presumed earliest depiction of the Virgin in the Catacomb of Priscilla, ca. 230–240