Regina Stefaniak

Mysterium Magnum: Michelangelo's Tondo Doni

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Produktbeschreibung

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 a ~two in one flesha (TM). 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 infanta (TM)s vehemence with a distinctly violent strain of Christian love, the painter turned to Dantea (TM)s "rime petrose" to continue the implied action and authorize a new painterly style, a sculptural "stile aspro."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 159
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 167mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9789004165441
• ISBN-10: 9004165444
• Artikelnr.: 23165155

Autorenporträt

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.