Devotions to the Blessed Virgin

• The Litany of Loretto, (text)
• A Prayer for Purity and Prayer to Mary, Queen of the Home
• Little Internet Library of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate

These pictures of our Lady can remind you to pray while you're working at the computer:

• From Piera Paltro's Hail Mary (children's book), illistrations by Anna Maria Curti, published by St. Paul Books and Media, 1981.
  • ``Hail Mary, full of grace''-- detail, 5 kbytes (176 x 166)
  • ``the Lord is with you''-- detail, 5 kbytes (163 x 166)
  • ``and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus''-- main section, 32 kbytes (334 x 638)
• From a 1996 calendar published by the Columban Fathers:
  • cover painting , 37 kbytes (431x416)
  • detail of cover , 37 kbytes (431x416)
  • Our Lady of Korea 12 kbytes (199x453)
  • other great pictures from the same Calendar are coming!
• Madonna and Child (detail) , (91 kbytes)
  Joseph Bertini and Caesar Ponti; 1922; Stained glass; the Vatican Library (a gift to Pope Pius XI)
• from a chapel in Jaen, 112 kbytes
  a miniature of the latter, 12 kbytes
• from a chapel in Granada, 18 kbytes (260x366)
• Mother of Good Council (pray for us to Jesus, your son), 23 kbytes (268x400)
• Virgin with Child , (62 kbytes) fragment of a frescro from the catacomb of Priscilla in Rome, beginning of the third century A.D (source: The Catechism of the Catholic Church)
• Virgin and Child , (7 kbytes) a woodcut found on the 'Net
• Mater Ecclesiae , (136 kbytes)
  "Mother of the Church"; Mosaic; St. Peter's Square [we need to get a better scanning]
• Mother of God Holding on the Right Side , (18 kbytes)
  Demetrios Dukas; Silk screen on wood, 12 x 16 in.
• Icons of the Mother of God, indexed with thumbnails
  others, indexed without thumbnails
• Rare Portraits of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Some Famous Paintings of the Virgin

Botticelli

• The Adoration of the Magi , (144 kbytes)
  1470-75; Tempera on panel; 111 x 134 cm; Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
• Madonna of the Magnificat , (68 kbytes)
  c.1485; Tempera on Panel, diameter 118 cm, in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence
• Madonna of the Pomegranate , (69 kbytes)
  Madonna and Child and six Angels, c. 1487, Uffizi in Florence
• The Cestello Annunciation , (192 kbytes)
  c. 1489; Tempera on panel, 150 x 156 cm; Uffizi, Florence

Raphael

• Madonna dell Granduca , (120 kbytes)
  c. 1505; Oil on wood, 84 x 55 cm (33 x 21 1/2 in); Palazzo Pitti, Florence
• The small Cowper Madonna , (136 kbytes)
  c. 1505; Oil on wood, 59.5 x 44 cm (23 3/8 x 17 3/8 in); National Gallery of Art, Washington

Leonardo da Vinci

• Madonna Litta , (160 kbytes)
  c. 1490-91; Tempera on canvas, transferred from panel, 42 x 33 cm (16 1/2 x 13 in); Hermitage, St. Petersburg
• The Virgin of the Rocks , (152 kbytes)
  1503-06; Oil on wood, 189.5 x 120 cm (6 x 4 ft); National Gallery, London

Michelangelo

• The Holy Family with the infant St. John the Baptist (the Doni Tondo) , (144 kbytes)
  c. 1503-05; Tempera on panel, Diameter 120 cm (47 in); Uffizi, Florence

Titian

• Madonna with saints and members of the Pesaro family , (184 kbytes)
  1519-26; Altar-painting: oil on canvas, 478 x 266 cm (188 1/8 x 104 3/4 in); Church of Sta Maria dei Frari, Venice

El Greco

• The Adoration of the Shepherds , (240 kbytes)
  1612-14; Oil on canvas, 319 x 180 cm (125 5/8 x 70 7/8"); Museo del Prado, Madrid
• Madonna and Child with St. Martina and St. Agnes , (152 kbytes) 1597-99; Oil on canvas, 193.5 x 103 cm (76 1/8 x 40 1/2 in); National Gallery of Art, Washington