Most of the Black Madonnas are found in churches, chapels and sanctuaries. A few are in museums. Most are sculpted, usually out of wood, sometimes from stone and one was cast in lead. Some are paintings, most of them attributed to St. Luke. A few are icons and several are frescoes.
The majority of the Black Madonnas listed are found in France - perhaps because much of the earliest research was French. More recently additional Italian and Spanish Black Madonnas have been identified by several authors.
