Il Doni Tondo Through God’s Eye
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Il Doni Tondo
Through God’s Eye
Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo
c.1503
Sefirotic Tree: The Ten Emanations of God
Keter
HokhmahBinah
Gevurah Hesed
Tiferet
HodNetsah
Yesod
Shekhinah
Sefirotic Tree as template for the Doni Tondo
Sefirotic Tree: The Ten Emanations of GodSefirotic Tree: The Ten Emanations of God
Keter
Binah
Gevurah Hesed
Tiferet
HodNetsah
Yesod
Shekhinah
Ein-Sof= Knowable God
Keter
HokhmahBinah
Gevurah Hesed
Tiferet
HodNetsah
Yesod
Shekhinah
WisdomUnderstanding
PowerLove
Splendor Eternity
Beauty
Foundation
Kingdom
Traditional Reading of Central Figures
=
Holy Family
(Mary, Christ and Joseph)
Steinberg’s Identification of Central Figures
=
God, Mary and Christ
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
“Creation of the Sun and the Moon”
Ein-Sof= Knowable God
Binah
Hokhmah
Sefirotic Tree: The Ten Emanations of GodSefirotic Tree: The Ten Emanations of God
Keter
Binah
Gevurah
Hesed
Tiferet
HodNetsah
Yesod
Shekhinah
Ein-Sof= Knowable GodKeter
HokhmahBinah
Gevurah
Hesed
Tiferet
HodNetsah
Yesod
Shekhinah
WisdomUnderstanding
Power Love
Splendor Eternity
Beauty
Foundation
Kingdom
Giovanni BelliniMadonna and Child c.1468
Leonardo’s Last Supper c.1495 in the refectory of Santa Maria delle
Grazie in Milan
=
1
23
4
56
7
89
10
1
2 3
4 5
6 7
89
10
1
2 3
4 5
6
7 8
9
10
God
Mary Christ
Ein-Sof
Binah Hokhmah
Keter
Binah
Gevurah Hesed
Tiferet
HodNetsah
Yesod
Shekhinah
Ein-Sof= Knowable God
Keter
HokhmahBinah
Gevurah Hesed
Tiferet
HodNetsah
Yesod
Shekhinah
WisdomUnderstanding
Powerred, judgment, rigor
and the left arm
Love right arm
Splendorprophecy
and the left leg
Eternityright leg
Beautycompassion, harmony,
green and king
Foundation
Kingdom
Keter
Binah
Gevurah Hesed
Tiferet
HodNetsah
Yesod
Shekhinah
Ein-Sof= Knowable God
Keter
HokhmahBinah
Gevurah Hesed
Tiferet
HodNetsah
Yesod
Shekhinah
WisdomUnderstanding
Powerred, judgment, rigor
and the left arm
Love right arm
Splendorprophecy
and the left leg
Eternityright leg
Beautycompassion, harmony,
green and king
Foundation
Kingdom
Foundation
Covenant or phallus
KingdomApple orchard and rainbow
Carlo da Camerino
The Madonna of Humility of 1400
KingdomApple orchard and rainbow
Doni Tondo
as a representation of God’s Eye
Girding Wall
Representing the five Hebrew letters
(Aleph-Lammed-Hay-Yod-Mem) of the
name of God “Elohim”
Tetragrammaton
Is the numerical equivalent or gematria of the name of
God (in English pronounced YHWY), which equals 72
“Elohim” (aleph-lammed-hey-yod-mem) is the Hebrew word for
God and is connected to the tetragrammaton through
association and through numerical factors.
To confirm that the carved tondi represent the Hebrew letters of “Elohim” one must take their
setting, a circle or 360 degrees and divide by five (tondi/letters), which
equal 72.
360/5=72
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