Bárkányi Ildikó – F. Lajkó Orsolya (szerk.): A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve 2017., Új folyam 4. (Szeged, 2018)
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Róbert Nátyi Crown with a twelve point star Crown with a twelve point star. Additions to the iconography of the devotion to the Woman clothed in the sun in Szeged Róbert Nátyi The study examines an etching of János Fülöp Binder (17367-1811), a popular etchers from 19th century Buda. It depicts the devotional picture of the Temple of Our Lady of the Snows from Szeged's lower city, which illustrates a special volume of sermons and contemplate writings of József Telek (1716-1773) a preacher and a teacher of theology, which was published in 1769. The etching depicts the Immaculate Virgin with a crown, as a queen, with a scepter in her hand as the Patrona Hungáriáé, in the customary iconographic style of the Woman clothed in the Sun, having its roots in the Middle Ages. Beyond the iconographic peculiarity of the illustration, it heavily relies on textual explanation, thus the etching gives a genuine, complex interpretation of a complex set of issues; inside this interpretation it connects every major relevant aspect like a summery, giving a compendium to the multifaceted theme. Our representation is excellent for the study of Patrona Hungáriáé and its interconnected Immaculata reverence and for the clarification of its complicated theological, iconological, legislative and historic roots, since it contains almost every element of these. 361
