This painting is gorgeous, a possibly blasphemous statement considering it depicts Mary, the mother of Jesus of Nazareth, but it was Edvard Munch who painted it, so blame him. There are five versions with oil on canvas, my favorite being the one above from the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo (there's another in the city, at the Munchmuseet, stolen in 2004 along with one of the versions of the more well-known "Der Schrei der Natur", but recovered two years later). Besides the paintings, there's a lithographic edition of 150 that adds a sense of morbidness to the overall devotional and alluring nature of the work but also emphasizes its sexuality. The model was Dagny Juel-Przybyszewska, who unfortunately died by the hands of a partner.
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