The title turns her own name into the joke: Madonna, a stage name inherited from the Italian title for the Virgin Mary, spent a four-decade career methodically dismantling the value the word is supposed to protect. The collage places her nude against a crucifix rendered in liquid chrome, arms raised, a rosary at her throat — the imagery of devotion used as the frame for its opposite. Raised Catholic and orphaned of her mother at five, Madonna built a public persona with no inherited rulebook: a 1992 nude Playboy spread, unretouched body hair included; the explicit 1992 book Sex, still among the best-selling photography books ever published; music videos depicting interracial relationships and domestic abuse survival years before either was mainstream subject matter; open embrace of premarital sex and unwed motherhood as ordinary rather than scandalous. The commercial record is not in dispute — she surpassed The Beatles' longstanding record for gold-certified singles in the US, drew the highest-grossing tour by a female performer at the time, won a Golden Globe for Evita, and in 2008 was named the world's highest-earning female musician by Forbes. She has never won a competitive Academy Award, despite the association that sometimes attaches to her name alongside Evita's Oscar for Best Original Song, which belonged to its songwriters. The correction matters less than the pattern: even her mistakes get remembered as bigger wins, because the persona was built to survive scrutiny that would have ended someone else's career.