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

PIETER BRU EGEL TEIE ELDER. THE SERMON OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST. BUDAPEST. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS six months. So what John tells about him that he 'w

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as before me' cannot refer to the incarnation of the Logos [...]."

4] Luclolphus de Saxonia: "[...] is one among yon, i.e., the one or whom I prophesy is present among you, who is a mediator between God and the humans, whom you do not recognise [...]. These words can be explained partly on the basis of the human character of Christ, namely that he actually lived among the Jews, that he mingled with humans as if being from among them, and it was not recognised that the one who was believed to come is already present. Or it can be explained on the basis of Christ's divinity that he is omnipresent and invisible. And according to this, he is there among all created things, yet no one knows about it, since no one notices him."

42 Subsequently, in John 1:26-27, Luther sees a reference to Christ's divinity, while Melanchton to his humanity.

43 IV. THE BUDAPEST PAINTING AND THE MAESTÀ In my opinion, the essence of the painting's iconography is not that "Saint John the Baptist bears testimony", but the content of this testimony, the fact that the Alessiah is still hiding, although he has come. The golden lines on Christ's robe signify the latter, the arrival, the