Editing Saint Anne (section)

===Iconography===
The subject of Joachim and Anne ''[[Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate|The Meeting at the Golden Gate]]'' was a regular component of artistic cycles of the [[Life of the Virgin]]. The couple meet at the [[Golden Gate (Jerusalem)|Golden Gate]] of [[Jerusalem]] and embrace. They are aware of Anne's pregnancy, of which they have been separately informed by an archangel. This moment stood for the conception of Mary, and the feast was celebrated on the same day as the [[Immaculate Conception]]. Artworks representing the Golden Gate and the events leading up to it were influenced by the narrative in the widely read ''Golden Legend'' of Jacobus de Voragine. The [[Nativity of Mary|Birth of Mary]], the [[Presentation of Mary]] and the [[Marriage of the Virgin]] were usual components of cycles of the Life of the Virgin in which Anne is normally shown here. Her emblem is a door.<ref name="crawley" /> She is often portrayed wearing red and green, representing love and life.<ref name="Fongemie" />

Anne is never shown as present at the [[Nativity of Jesus in art|Nativity of Christ]] but is frequently shown with the infant Christ in various subjects. She is sometimes believed to be depicted in scenes of the [[Presentation of Jesus at the Temple]] and the [[Circumcision of Christ]], but in the former case, this likely reflects a misidentification through confusion with [[Anna the Prophetess]]. There was a tradition that Anne went (separately) to Egypt and rejoined the [[Holy Family]] after their [[Flight to Egypt]]. Anne is not seen with the adult Christ, so was regarded as having died during the youth of Jesus.<ref>Some writers gave her age at death, as part of a general family chronology, but no generally accepted tradition developed on this point, even during the Middle Ages.</ref> Anne is also shown as the matriarch of the [[Holy Kinship]], the extended family of Jesus, a popular subject in late medieval Germany; some versions of these pictorial and sculptural depictions include [[Emerentia]] who was reputed in the fifteenth century to be Anne's mother. In modern devotions, Anne and her husband are invoked for protection for the unborn.