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

SAINT JOHN THF. BAPTIST BEARING WITNESS. MOUNT A THUS PRO l'A TON CHURCH which is followed on the recto of fol. 169 by the Baptism. The group with the Redeemer in the focus in the first scene of the verso of fol. 168 seems to be the result of a double contamination: the rendition may have evolved partly from the figure of Christ, the "one among you whom you do not recognise", appearing among priests and Lévites, and partly from his figure accompanied by his followers.-'

6 Stubblebine pointed out that the immediate antecedents of the iconography of the Budapest painting are to be found in Byzantine monumental painting.

27 On the southern wall of the central nave of the Protaton Church on Mount Athos, the discussed Testi mony-scene is shown preceding the Baptism: John, from the bank of a river, points to the other side, where, amidst the populous crowd of Pharisees and Lévites, unseen by them, emerges the nearly frontal figure of the Saviour, who gazes at the viewer (fig. 3).

2S Above the scene, John 1:26-27 is legible: "I baptise with water; but there is one among you whom you do not recognise, the one who is coming after me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to untie." The same iconographical type appears in the apse of the southern transept of the Monastery of Chilandar; here, to the left of the Baptism, the Baptist and the delegation from Jerusalem opposite him, with the frontal figure of Christ in the centre, stand on the same bank of the river.

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'' On the banderole of the Baptist the