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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

A. Pigler, Barockthemen, 2. ed., Budapest 1974, Vol. 1, 273: "Predigt Johannis der Täufers über den Heiland, der, dem Volke noch unbekannt, anwesend ist. Job. 1:26." It is another question that from among the examples enumerated by him, it is only the Budapest Bruegel which is indeed related to this given passage. That is why I cannot agree with Zsuzsa Urbach, according to whom, "it was only Andor Pigler who distinguished the two episodes (the Preaching and the Ecce Agnus Dei)" (Urbach 2001, 193). In the Iconoclass: "John the Baptist preaching (perhaps Christ among the Bystanders)" (H. van de Waal, Iconoclass, an iconographie classification system, Amsterdam, Oxford, and New York 1981, 7, 197). Stubblebine 1977, 433; Stubblebine 1979, 53. H. Omont, Evangiles avec peinture byzantines du Xle siècle. Reproduction des 361 miniatures du manuscrit grec 74 de la Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris 1908, 143/b: "Jean rend témoignage de Dieu devant les sacrificateurs et les lévites envoyés de Jérusalem par les Juifs"; 144/a: "Jean répond aux pharisens." Ibid., 144/b: "Il baptise dans le Jourdain et voit venir Jésus." Ibid., 145/a: "Jean rend tie nouveau témoignage à Jésus." See Millet 1960, 188, to verso 168: "Jean baptise un Juif en présemee de Jésus et de cinq disciples: image étrangère au récit, sans doute interpolée, à cause d'une allusion placée dans la bouche du Baptiste (Joh. 1:26)." Stubblebine 1977, 433; Stubblebine 1979, 53. G. Millet, Monuments de FAthos: Les Peintures, Paris 1927, pis. 6.1, 7.2, 11.2, 14. 3; P. A. Underwood, "Some Problems in Programs and Iconography of Ministry Cycles," in The Kariye Djanii IV. Studies in the Art of the Kariye Djami and Its Intellectual Background, London 1975, 273; M. AcheimastouPotamianou, Byzantine Wall-Painting, Athens 1994, 236 (Manuel Panselinos c. 1290). Millet 1927, pis. 64.1, 66.2; Underwood 1975, 275. Underwood 1966, no. 114, pis. 211, 215. D. Cavalca, Le Vite dei S. S. Padri, vol. 1, Milan n. d., 332-37. On the dating of the text to around 1300, see P. A. Dunford, "The Iconography of the Frescoes in the Oratorio di San Giovanni at Urbino," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 36 (1973), 367. P. Joannides, Masaccio and Masolino. A Complete Catalogue, London 1993, 288-89. From among the three mentions of the second part of the text ("this was he who comes after me"), one in fact directly follows the passage "is one among you..." (Jn 1:15; 1:27; 1:30). Further examples

—already within the frames of another iconographical tvpe

—of John bearing witness represented together with the first followers of Christ (Jn 3:22-36): fourteenth-century Tuscan miniature, Paris, BN fr. 9561 (Pigler 1974, Bd. 1, 273); Dello Delli, Salamanca, Old Cathedral, see Kindlers Malerei Lexikon II, Zurich n. d., 387; Master of the Saint John Altarpiece in Gouda, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, see Urbach 2001, fig. 7.