It is clear that such images are allowed because the intention was not to worship such images rather as decorations or instrument of divine healing. This is very different from the account of Exodus 32:7-8, wherein the Israelites specifically made the image of a golden calf for the purpose of worship - “Yahweh then said to Moses. ‘Go down at once, for your people whom you brought here from Egypt have become corrupt. They have quickly left the way which I ordered them to follow. They have cast themselves a metal calf, worshipped it and offered sacrifice to it, shouting, ‘Israel here is your God who brought you here from Egypt’.” – Exodus 32:7-8

God’s directive/command to the Israelites not to make any graven images is to help them avoid the temptation of worshipping anything or anybody or object outside the TRUE GOD Himself.

At that time God was yet to reveal Himself in Christ but at the appointed time, he appeared as the word made flesh and lived among his people. “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God”. – John 1:1, “The Word became flesh and lived among us …”. – John 1:14

In furtherance to this, the writer to the Hebrews in Chapter 1: 1- 4 states “At many moments in the past and by many means, God spoke to our ancestors through the Prophets; but in our time, the final days, he has spoken to us in the person of his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things and through whom he made the ages. He is the reflection of God’s glory and bears the impress of God’s own being, sustaining all things by his powerful command; and now that he has purged sin away, he has taken his seat at the right hand of the divine Majesty on high. So he is now as far above the angels as the title which he has inherited is higher than their own name”.

Hence making statues or pictures depicting Jesus and the Mother of Jesus, we are not worshipping them, rather him whom they represent and as in the case of the image, statue or pictures of Jesus Christ.  We are worshipping God or venerating God not the statue or pictures, for Jesus is the very image of God.