{"product_id":"mysterium-magnum-michelangelos-tondo-doni-9789004165441","title":"Mysterium Magnum: Michelangelo's Tondo Doni","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Acknowledgements  Introduction  1.  Prime nozze: Generation 2.  Seconde nozze: Regeneration 3.  Così nel mio parlar vogli’ esser aspro  Illustrations Bibliography Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210609484119,"sku":"9789004165441","price":140.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mysterium-magnum-michelangelos-tondo-doni-9789004165441","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}