Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 104. (Budapest, 2006)

ANNA EÖRSI: "...there is One Among You Whom You Do Not Recognise": Some Golden Threads to Miklós Boskovits with Reference to Duccio's Saint John the Baptist

ASCRIBED TO DUCCIO Dl BUON I NSEGNA, SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST HEARING WITNESS. BUDAPEST MUSEUM OF FINI ARTS I. GOLDEN STRIATIONS (CHRYSOGRAPHY) Chrysography is a characteristic technique of decoration with gold in Byzantine manuscript illumination, icon- and wall-painting.

4 In the abstracted web of the golden lines, the difference between illumination and glitter disappeared; the two together became the sign of divine radiance.'' Throughout the thirteenth century in Italy, chrysography gradually lost its abstractness; in the hands of the most eminent painters it started to adjust to the structure of folds and the body.

6 In this process, Duccio (1278-1318/9), who handled the golden striations quite flexibly as one of the elements of the other naturalistic innovations of his style, played a decisive role. In his art, the former hard, stiff lines unambiguously follow the fall of the clothing; besides, they lend liveliness to the folds of the drapery.

7 All this has long been known; yet, in the