Lady Eagles rebound with win over Madonna

by The Library of Congress

Lady Eagles rebound with win over Madonna
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Christian women's basketball team earned a needed win on Tuesday after dropping Madonna University (Mich.) 62-45 in the Nest. The Lady Eagles grabbed the first lead with a quick 3-pointer from Katy Clift before Clift increased the lead to six just minutes later with a second basket from behind the arc.
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NYC – Metropolitan Museum of Art – Madonna and Child with Saints


Image by wallyg
Madonna and Child with Saints
altarpiece, ca. 1520
Girolamo dai Libri (Italian, Veronese, 14741555)
Tempera and oil on canvas; Arched top, 157 x 81 1/2 in. (398.8 x 207 cm)

The saints (left to right) are Catherine of Alexandria, Leonard, Augustine, and Apollonia. Painted in about 1520 for the Augustinian church of San Leonardo nel Monte outside Verona, the picture was described at length by the sixteenth-century biographer Giorgio Vasari, who especially admired the landscape and enormous laurel tree. While the Madonna and Child reflect the work of Andrea Mantegna, the distant hill crowned with a fortress and the dead tree are taken over directly from Dürer’s well-known engraving of Saint Eustace. The juxtaposition of the dead tree with the flourishing laurel refers to Death and Resurrection, while the peacock is a traditional symbol of immortality. A versatile artist, Girolamo dai Libri was equally famous as an illuminator of books, whence his name dai Libri ("of the books"). Of modern manufacture, the frame is based on Renaissance prototypes.

Fletcher Fund, 1920 (20.92)

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s permanent collection contains more than two million works of art from around the world. It opened its doors on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Under their guidance of John Taylor Johnston and George Palmer Putnam, the Met’s holdings, initially consisting of a Roman stone sarcophagus and 174 mostly European paintings, quickly outgrew the available space. In 1873, occasioned by the Met’s purchase of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot antiquities, the museum decamped from Fifth Avenue and took up residence at the Douglas Mansion on West 14th Street. However, these new accommodations were temporary; after negotiations with the city of New York, the Met acquired land on the east side of Central Park, where it built its permanent home, a red-brick Gothic Revival stone "mausoleum" designed by American architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mold. As of 2006, the Met measures almost a quarter mile long and occupies more than two million square feet, more than 20 times the size of the original 1880 building.

In 2007, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was ranked #17 on the AIA 150 America’s Favorite Architecture list.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967. The interior was designated in 1977.

National Historic Register #86003556

Madonna del Baldacchino, Madonna of the Canopy – Raphael’s Madonnen und Heilige Familien, 1881


Image by DominusVobiscum
Madonna del Baldacchino,c. 1509 Raphael’s Madonnen und Heilige Familien, 1881 – The Virgin is enthroned beneath a baldacchino. St. Peter and St. Bernard are on the left, while St. Augustine, and probably St. James the Elder, stand on the right. Angels and cherubs – cherubini.

Madonna of the Trail ~ Vandalia


Image by Pete Zarria
The Madonna of the Trail, a homage to the Pioneer Woman and pioneering spirit.

From Wiki: Madonna of the Trail is a series of 12 monuments dedicated to the spirit of pioneer women in the United States. The monuments were commissioned by the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR). They were placed along the National Old Trails Road and extended from Bethesda, Maryland, to Upland, California, in each of the 12 states the road passed through. These were erected in 1926 and 1927. This one is in Vandalia, Illinois.

These are placed along the National Trails Highway.

All I can hear in my head is the chords from that babyface written madonna song "say goodbye" – by musiknmymind (Pen Credible)

ready to snap so I put madonna on @ work. screw u customers!~ – by MimiChan82 (Mikka Lambright)

@TwiredJen Hey Are we gonna get to see you all Madonna'd out tonite?? – by LuvsMeSumEdward (Jess)

Madonna Trivia!
Me and a few other students at my highschool currently have lip piercings on the bottom lip and were all sent to ISS today. A few days ago we were called out by a principal and were told they violated school dress code and needed to be removed. Not long after a student with a madonna piercing came up and my friend asked how come those piercings are allowed and she replied that they are religious.

Answer by Geezah
Well the pop culture origin of the “Monroe” piercing is obvious from the name.

http://www.bartcop.com/marilyn-monroe001.jpg

>>and she replied that they are religious.

Your friend is full of it.