The fourth major type of Marian imagery found in the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection is The Virgin Enthroned, where Mary sits in regal splendor with the Christ Child on her lap. This devotional motif is also known as "The Seat of Wisdom," where Mary is viewed as a throne for her divine son, the source of all truth. I have a quartet of images from international artists to present this week, beginning, clockwise, top left, with an ancient prototype from the Coptic Christian world, painted by an unknown modern Egyptian artisan on a sheet of papyrus, a reed once plentiful in the Nile River marshes, pressed into paper for the courts of the Pharaohs. Czech Ex Libris Artist Bohuslav Knobloch shows the Madonna and Child in a small format lithograph in the International Gothic style, wearing a crown in her role as "Queen of Heaven." American Printmaker Bernard Brussel-Smith spent his summers in South Central France and presents The Virgin Enthroned as a medieval French woodcarving. giving us a glimpse of an ancient church in the village of Collonges-la-Rouge. The fourth "Seat of Wisdom" piece is a Dutch ceramic tile from De Porceleyne Fles pottery works in Delft, famed for its blue-and-white ceramics, where the image is formed by tiny raised lines in the "cloisonné style," because of the resemblance to cloisonné enamel work, where colored areas of enamel are framed by metal strips. (John Kohan)