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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]
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)
Visitors observing Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo.Uffizi is ranked as the 5th most visited art museum in the world, with around five million visitors annually.. The building of the Uffizi complex was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici as a means to consolidate his administrative control of the various committees, agencies, and guilds established in Florence's Republican past ...
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
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.
Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist and a Donor is an oil painting on panel executed c. 1528 by the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Beccafumi. It is a tondo measuring 140 cm in diameter, and is now in the Museo Horne in Florence .
Nativity images became increasing popular in panel paintings in the 15th century, although on altarpieces the Holy Family often had to share the picture space with donor portraits. In Early Netherlandish painting the usual simple shed, little changed from Late Antiquity, developed into an elaborate ruined temple, initially Romanesque in style ...