St. George in Kurbinovo (1191), Transfiguration, detail Сл. 2 Св. Ђорђе у Курбинову (1191), Преображење, детаљ

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... detail in a form of a gesture, speaks in favour of its uncompromising non-conformity. Instead of looking "dazed and confused" by the metamorphosis of his master, the apostle Peter in the Kurbinovo painting straightforwardly salutes Him with a token of his unquestioning approval in a form of an accentuated "sign of the horns" or mano cornuto ( fig. 2), well known from the social language of some esoteric fraternities, as well as the ideas of Eastern mysticism 13 . Alluding to the significance of earthly tasks, rather than heavenly missions, it discloses the alternative religious belief of the painter, founded upon the biological origin of Christ and compatible to the historic ideas ...