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The Doni Tondo or Doni Madonna is the only finished panel painting by the mature Michelangelo to survive. [1] [nb 1] Now in the Uffizi in Florence, Italy, and still in its original frame, the Doni Tondo was probably commissioned by Agnolo Doni to commemorate his marriage to Maddalena Strozzi, the daughter of a powerful Tuscan family. [2]
A tondo (pl.: tondi or tondos) is a Renaissance term for a circular work of art, either a painting or a sculpture. The word derives from the Italian rotondo , "round". The term is usually not used in English for small round paintings, but only those over about 60 cm (two feet) in diameter, thus excluding many round portrait miniatures – for ...
Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Portrait of a Young Woman (1470–1472), Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan. Facade of Santa Maria Novella (1456) Michelangelo, Doni Tondo (1503–1504). The Florentine Renaissance in art is the new approach to art and culture in Florence during the period from approximately the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 16th.
The tondo was probably previously owned by the Marquises Durazzo Spinola of Genoa. [ 1 ] Stylistically close to San Michele in the Church of San Nicolò al Carmine, it shares an approach similar to other works, such as the one in the Doria Pamphili Gallery or the one in the Marri Mignanelli Collection in Sinalunga .
Raphael, companion portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife, Maddelena Doni, for whom Michelangelo's Doni Tondo was commissioned. Andrea del Sarto, The Young John the Baptist; Andrea del Sarto, Disputation on the Holy Trinity; Sebastiano del Piombo, Martyrdom of St Agatha; Titian, Mary Magdalene; Titian, Portrait of Pietro Aretino
Notes: Michelangelo's only authenticated easel painting. Created for Agnolo Doni as a Wedding present for his wife Magdelena. References: Uffizi Polo Museale Fiorentino, Inventario 1890: online database: entry 1456 (Italian)
Michelangelo's Doni Tondo is the largest of these works, but was a private commission. The highly unusual composition, the contorted form of the Madonna, the three heads all near the top of the painting and the radical foreshortening were all very challenging features, and Agnolo Doni was not sure that he wished to pay for it.
The Torment of Saint Anthony [2] (or The Temptation of Saint Anthony, c. 1487–88) is a painting by Michelangelo, who painted this close copy of the famous engraving by Martin Schongauer when he was only 12 or 13 years old. Whether the painting is by Michelangelo is disputed. [3] This painting is now in the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.