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VICTOR M. SCHMIDT: A Duccesque Painting Representing St John the Baptist Bearing Witness in the Museum of Fine Arts

would have represented the Baptist Bearing Witness, while Sullivan proposes the Anointing in Bethany as the more likely alternative." Iconographically, these proposals may sound convincing, but whether the short ends of the predella were actually painted at all remains doubtful. It is now generally assumed that the Maestà was equipped with lateral buttresses to keep the enormous structure of the altarpiece in place. It has been pointed out "that the presence of scenes " Stubblebine, J., 'The back predella of Duccio's Maestà, in: Studies in late Medieval and Renaissance painting in honor of Millard Meiss, New York 1977, 430-436; Stubblebine, op. cit., I, 52-54; Sullivan, R.W., 'The Anointing in Bethany and other affirmations of Christ's divinity on Duccio's back predella', Art Bulletin 67 (1985), 32-50. 22. Duccio di Buoninsegna: Maestà, reverse, reconstruction John White