Csornay Boldizsár - Hubai Péter szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 96. (Budapest, 2002)

KOVÁCS, ZOLTÁN: A New Representation of the Salvator Mundi from the workshop of Quentin Massys

37. Salvator Mundi, Lino Pesaro Milano, May 12-17, 1913, Lot 35. ground area seem to confirm. The black and white photograph shows Christ's robe to be of a darker hue in the Milanese picture. The two paintings are almost entirely identical in their compositions: the bodies are cropped exactly the same way, the gestures of the hands, the rendering of the fingers, and the inherent proportions of the figures are also in perfect accord with each other. The same observation also applies to the details of the crosses surmounting the globe, as well as to the handling of the draperies. Nevertheless, a few smaller differences can be observed in the modelling of the mantle's folds. There is a tiny triangular bulge where Christ's robe and mantle meet in the Buda-