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Mysterium Magnum: Michelangelo's Tondo Doni
Series: - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 164/1
- Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, Volume: 164/1
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This study presents the Tondo Doni to the new Florentine republic as a model of the 'great sacrament' of marriage from the New Testament book of Ephesians. Following fifteenth-century theology, Michelangelo portrayed Mary as a humble wife dominated and possessed by a virile guardian Joseph, the couple united as if ‘two in one flesh’. To compensate for their symbolic propinquity, the painter cast her as a paragon of virginity, a muscular mulier fortis. In order to keep this virago in her place, Michelangelo coupled the Virgin in spiritual union with Christ, maenad-Psyche to bacchic Eros, attempting to mystify her social subordination into self-sacrificing love via Ficinian commentary and Saint Paul. Then, firing the Doni infant’s vehemence with a distinctly violent strain of Christian love, the painter turned to Dante’s rime petrose to continue the implied action and authorize a new painterly style, a sculptural stile aspro.
Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, vol. 1
Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, vol. 1
Regina Stefaniak, Ph.D. (1989) in History of Art, University of California at Berkeley, is an independent scholar in Berkeley, California. She has published extensively on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian art in its cultural context, including essays on such artists as Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael, Correggio, Rosso Fiorentino and Parmigianino.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Prime nozze: Generation
2. Seconde nozze: Regeneration
3. Così nel mio parlar vogli’ esser aspro
Illustrations
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Prime nozze: Generation
2. Seconde nozze: Regeneration
3. Così nel mio parlar vogli’ esser aspro
Illustrations
Bibliography
Index
All those interested in early modern Italian history, Italian Renaissance art, the classical tradition, women's studies, as well as Marian & Josephine scholars.