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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 ...
Ensō (c. 2000) by Kanjuro Shibata XX.Some artists draw ensō with an opening in the circle, while others close the circle.. In Zen art, an ensō (円 相, "circular form") [1] is a circle hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes to express the Zen mind, which is associated with enlightenment, emptiness, freedom, and the state of no-mind.
The smaller 1886 version of The Magic Circle, 88 cm x 60 cm (34.6 in x 23.6 in), in a private collection Miranda - The Tempest by J. W. Waterhouse (1916) A study for the painting, c. 1886, in a private collection. The Magic Circle is an 1886 oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse. Two copies of the painting were ...
It was described by the art historian Carmen C. Bambach as "justly ranked among the all-time iconic images of Western civilization". [1] Although not the only known drawing of a man inspired by the writings of Vitruvius, the work is a unique synthesis of artistic and scientific ideals and often considered an archetypal representation of the ...
In Hinduism, a basic mandala, also called a yantra, takes the form of a square with four gates containing a circle with a centre point. Each gate is in the general shape of a T. [3] Mandalas often have radial balance. [4] A yantra is similar to a mandala, usually smaller and using a more limited colour palette.
Christ in Majesty shown within a mandorla shape in a medieval illuminated manuscript. 13/14th c. seal of Stone Priory in Staffordshire, England, in the shape of a mandorla. A mandorla is an almond-shaped aureola, i.e. a frame that surrounds the totality of an iconographic figure.
'little glory'), is a crown of light rays, circle or disk of light [3] that surrounds a person in works of art. The halo occurs in the iconography of many religions to indicate holy or sacred figures, and has at various periods also been used in images of rulers and heroes.
Circle Limit III is a woodcut made in 1959 by Dutch artist M. C. Escher, in which "strings of fish shoot up like rockets from infinitely far away" and then "fall back again whence they came". [ 1 ] It is one of a series of four woodcuts by Escher depicting ideas from hyperbolic geometry .