Mysterium Magnum : : Michelangelo's Tondo Doni / / by Regina Stefaniak.
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...
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| Superior document: | Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 164. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 1 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 164. Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 1. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (180 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Other title: | Preliminary Materials / Introduction Tondo Doni / Chapter One. Prime Nozze: Generation / Chapter Two. Seconde Nozze: Regeneration / Chapter Three. Così Nel Mio Parlar Vogli’ Esser Aspro / Bibliography / Index / |
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| Summary: | 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 , volume 1 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-155) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1282398156 9786612398155 9047433017 |
| ISSN: | 0920-8607 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Regina Stefaniak. |