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

DUCCIO DI BUONINSEGNA. WASHING OF THE FEET. SIENA MUSEO DELL' OPERA DEL DUOMO epiphany of the divine nature. And this theme and the way Duccio treated it fits into the first place of the back predella of the Maestà —wdiere Miklós Boskovits imaginarily placed it —at least as much as its rivals in the literature, The Baptism or The First Temptation.^ In this place it would be a proper introduction to the series about Christ's public life, and not only from chronological aspects. As Christoph Wagner pointed out, an important theme of the back predella is the transition from blindness to sight, from darkness to light, the process during which Jesus, not recognised by the Jews and the Pharisees, finally manifests himself in

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