This week I have put the latest version of my interpretation of Michelangelo's Doni Tondo on my website, MyGiorgione. Last year at Giorgione et al... I published an initial exploration of the famous painting but then followed it with four essays revising the initial interpretation. Now I have put them all together and available in one place at MyGiorgione. Here is a link.
Below are some of the sources that I have used in trying to
understand the Doni Tondo.
D’Ancona, Mirella
Levi : “The Doni Madonna by
Michelangelo: An Iconographic Study.” Reprinted in Michelangelo, Selected Scholarship
in English, edited with Introduction by William E. Wallace, New York and
London, 1995, V. 1.Life and Early Works, p. 403-412. (numbers in brackets refer
to the pages in the Wallace collection).This study first appeared in the Art
Bulletin in 1968.
Franceschini, Chiara:
“The Nudes in Limbo: Michelangelo’s “Doni
Tondo” Revisited”, Journal of the
Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 73 (2010), pp. 137-180.
Goffen, Rona: Renaissance Rivals. Yale, 2002.
Hayum, Andree: “Michelangelo’s
Doni Tondo: Holy Family and Family Myth.” Reprinted in Michelangelo, Selected Scholarship in English, edited with
Introduction by William E. Wallace, New York and London, 1995, V. 1.Life and
Early Works, p. 417-459. This paper first appeared in Studies in Iconology, 7-8
(1981-2), 209-251.
Olsen, Roberta J. M. :
The Florentine Tondo, Oxford, 2000.
Steinberg,
Leo: “Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo,” Vogue, December 1974, pp. 138-39.
Verdon, Timothy: Mary in Florentine Art, Firenze,
2003.
Wallace, William ed.:
Michelangelo, Selected Scholarship in English, New York and London, 1995. In addition to the articles on the
Doni Tondo mentioned above, this three volume collection contains a number of
papers on the Sistine Chapel that shed light on the Doni Tondo.
Whitford, David: The Curse of Ham in the Early Modern Era, Ashgate, 2009.
Below find an image of Luca Signorelli's Medici Madonna, another tondo often compared to the Doni Tondo, especially because of the semi-nude young men in the background.
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