Low Countries). In 1999, Notre Dame College in Dhaka created a collage of Mata Mary (Mother Mary, ; the common name in which the college is known as) where Mary is shown as the Seat of Wisdom. In September 2000, at the close of the Jubilee Year, Pope John Paul II commissioned the Slovenian Jesuit artist Marko Ivan Rupnik to create in mosaic an icon of the Virgin sedes sapientiae for the world's Catholic universities; it has since been passed reverently among Catholic institutions in a number of nations. See also Maestà, Maria Regina. Madonna of humility Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College Church of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom, Dublin Sophia (wisdom) Holy Wisdom References Further reading Hans Belting, 1994. Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art. Translated by Edmund Jephcott. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Ilene H. Forsyth, 1972. The Throne of Wisdom: Wood Sculptures of the Madonna in Romanesque France. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Barbara G. Lane, 1984. The Altar and the Altarpiece, Sacramental Themes in Early Netherlandish Painting. New York: Harper & Row. External links Virgin Mary in art