My favorite Botero painting, “Mother and Child.” This subversive commentary casts the Madonna as a monarch, with the messiah waving her flag; the apple is (I believe) a cross-reference to Botero’s “Eve” painting

My favorite Botero painting, “Mother and Child.” This subversive commentary casts the Madonna as a monarch, with the messiah waving her flag; the apple is (I believe) a cross-reference to Botero’s “Eve” painting