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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 ...
The tondo as a format for painting and relief sculpture was a quintessential product of the Florentine Renaissance. During the century after 1430, all the leading artists created tondi, including Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Luca Signorelli, Piero di Cosimo, Fra Bartolomeo, Andrea del Sarto, Leonardo da Vinci (in a lost work), and Raphael.
Tondo may refer to: . Tondo (art), a circular painting or sculpture Tondo, Manila, a district of Manila; Tondo (historical polity), an early historic polity on the north side of the Pasig River delta in Luzon, Philippines; a predecessor of the modern-day district
The façades are sculpted as if they were altarpieces, and together with the typical Renaissance cushioning, there are columns with grotesques and full of decoration and windows in the Gothic tradition. There is a proliferation of tondos or medallions and coats of arms placed in the keystones of the vaults and in the spandrels of the arches.
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]
The Madonna of the Magnificat (Italian: Madonna del Magnificat), is a painting of circular or tondo form by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli.It is also referred to as the Virgin and Child with Five Angels.
The decorative details are by Donatello, who designed the tondos in the pendentives, the lunettes, the reliefs above the doors and the doors themselves. [5] The smaller dome above the altar is decorated with astrological depictions of star constellations. The arrangement of the constellations is accurate enough to estimate the particular date ...
Cantoria (singing loft) by Luca della Robbia, 1431-38, his first known commission - Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence One of the panels of the Cantoria. Vasari, Gaurico, and several other early writers give contradictory accounts of Luca della Robbia's youth, training, and early works.