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This is a chronological list of periods in Western art history. An art period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist, groups of artists or art movement.
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 earliest roundel to be described was the one at Krpy (Kropáčova Vrutice), Bohemia, by Woldřich 1886, but it was only with systematic aerial survey in the 1980s and the 1990s that their ubiquity in the region became apparent. Three types have been distinguished:
The Tricolore cockade of the French Air Force was first used on military aircraft before the First World War [1]. A roundel is a circular disc used as a symbol. The term is used in heraldry, but also commonly used to refer to a type of national insignia used on military aircraft, generally circular in shape and usually comprising concentric rings of different colours.
Currently a majority of the art historians accept the attribution to Botticelli. [2] While the Merton family owned the portrait, it became the subject of a poster for a Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition of Italian Art in 1960. [11] In 1982, Merton's descendants sold the painting for £ 810,000 at an auction at Christie's. [2]
A roundel vert ("green roundel") is known as a pomme, the French word for apple. It was frequently pluralised as pomeis – as in the Heathcote arms: Ermine, three pomeis, each charged with a cross or [1] – but pommes is now more common.
1974 in art – For the first time in art history, the chemogram invented by Josef H. Neumann closed the separation of the painterly background and the photographic layer in a symbiosis of painting and real photographic perspective.
Rondel (from Old French, the diminutive of roont "round", meaning "small circle") may refer to: . Rondel (dagger) or roundel, type of medieval dagger Rondel (armour), a circular piece of steel, as part of an armour harness, that normally protects a vulnerable point