To mark the beginning of the New Year and the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6, I have added ten new images from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection to the "We Three Kings" page of the Coming of Christ gallery in the Life of Christ section. The Adoration of the Magi, recounted in the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, was a favorite theme of artists in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Four of the works in this month's art offerings pay homage to earlier studies of this scene. Italian Graphic Artist Gabriela Desvaldi has created a richly detailed serigraph (left), recalling images of the Three Kings by Italian Painters Gentile da Fabriano and Sandro Botticelli. French Printmaker Jacques Beltrand's wood engraving evokes the prints of German Master Albrecht Durer. American Artist Norman Kent offers a linocut, composed like a panel of medieval stained glass, while British Watercolorist David Jackson has reproduced an actual late 12th century window of the Dream of the Three Wise Men from Canterbury Cathedral. In contrast to these four traditional images, you can see a trio of artworks of the Adoration of the Magi in a modernist style: an oil on cardboard study by Russian Artist Ivan Filichev; a lithograph by an unknown European artist with suggestions of Marc Chagall and German Expressionist Max Beckmann; and a serigraph by "Javier" from Puerto Rico, where the Day of the Three Kings is celebrated with parades, festivals, and gift-giving. My last three selections for January are the work of international folk artists. An unknown Haitian metal worker depicts the Three Wisemen bearing their gifts from afar in an embossed relief panel, hammered out of a recycled oil drum lid; an unknown Ethiopian Artist shows the Three Kings in elaborate crowns, worshipping the Christ Child in a painting on parchment; and Brazilian Printmaker Jose Francisco Borges depicts the coming of the Wise Men in the traditional style of "string literature" woodcut illustrations. (John Kohan)