 While the matter of the Immaculate Conception remained a subject of debate between philosophers and theologians, the depiction of "Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate" was sometimes interpreted as a symbolic representation of the conception of Mary.Anne was revered as the "avia Christi" (grandmother of Christ), matriarch of the Holy Kinship, a devout lay person and exemplary mother.Fourteenth-century images of Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child were often modeled on the earlier "Sedes Sapiientiae" (Throne of Wisdom) motif.