Mysterium Magnum : Michelangelo's Tondo Doni /
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| Author / Creator: | Stefaniak, Regina. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008. |
| Description: | xiii, 159 p., 2 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 164. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 1 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. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7096933 |
| 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 .<br><br> Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History , vol. 1 |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 159 p., 2 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-155) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004165441 9004165444 |
| ISSN: | 0920-8607 ; |
