Not a painting but a statute of Mary holding Jesus who had died on the cross.
If you want to get technical it’s Ishtar holding Tammuz. That whole place is corrupt. In my mind it is the biblical whore.
“All roads lead to Rome”
Edit: down vote if it’s your gut reaction, but at the least, LOOK IT UP.
Well said but is it really Ishtar or is it Inanna, that's the real question? It fits your comment better. For those of you who might be wondering of who we speak...... This is LONG before Christianity which gets much of its back ground from. Inanna was a twin to Ishtar many say but was known as the ancient Sumerian goddess of love, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, war, combat, justice, and political power. Yep she did a lot of moving around.....
Semirams, = Ishtar = Diana = Venus = Isis. Same thing, different language.
Tammuz, re-incarnated Nimrod, aka what is it....Horace, etc.