By the way, this misunderstood has been used here at FR at least twice. Dr. Eckleburg was pushing it in November. Look at post 28, 30, 32 below: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2386784/posts?page=32#32
What you see here is how one ill informed person’s bizarre anti-Catholic ideas are picked up by other anti-Catholics without ANY investigation or thought or discernment. As long as it’s anti-Catholic, it’s okay.
I think that is the thread where I asked my 21 year old Goddaughter about the artwork. She said it was probably being sold by a vendor. Lots of different works of art are sold there.
She also said that the style of the art is different on one side than the other with the corpus being of an older style than the modern Madonna with Child. She is an art major at Columbia University and toured Rome to study liturgical art.