The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week.

杂志封面上有一位漂亮的母亲抱着一个可爱的婴儿，这不是麦当娜和孩子的照片第一次出现在在本周报摊上了。

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I wondered for a long while what I should paint, and in the end I decided on a Madonna, or mother and child.

我想知道在很长的一段时间我应该画，最后，我决定麦当娜，或母亲和孩子。

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The last time Madonna tried to adopt a Malawian child she met with more success and a heap of criticism.

比起这次麦当娜上一次的收养过程受到了更多的争议。

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The Italian artist Duccio painted his "Madonna and Child" in thirteen hundred.

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The exhibition includes one of these gifts, the head of a woman identified as Cleopatra (c. 1532-33), which like the Madonna and Child has passages so finely worked that any sign of the artist's hand has disappeared.

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Examples such as the Madonna and Child provide insight into how Michelangelo's drawings became so famous in his own day that such literary figures as Pietro Aretino repeatedly beseeched him to send any piece of paper from his hand.

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While Giotto developed a sense of volume in his painting, Duccio stuck to the two-dimensional painting of Cimabue and surpassed it, leavening the Byzantine forms with brilliant hues and a tenderness between Madonna and Child (pictured) that could touch his viewers.

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