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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.
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 Madonna and Child with St John and Angels (c. 1497), also known as The Manchester Madonna, is an unfinished painting in the National Gallery, London, attributed to Michelangelo. [1] It is one of three surviving panel paintings attributed to the artist and has been dated to his first period in Rome .
The most famous fruit of Beaumont's patronage is the Constable's painting of the cenotaph erected to Reynolds in the grounds at Coleorton (painted 1833–6; now in the National Gallery). Taddei Tondo (Michelangelo, c. 1504–5)
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)
Madonna and Child (Tondo Pitti) c. 1503 – 1504 Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence: Marble 85,8 × 82 cm Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John (Taddei Tondo) c. 1504 – 1506 Royal Academy of Arts, London Marble/Coon (a type of graphite) diameter 82.5 cm Saint Matthew: c. 1505 Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence: Marble height 271 cm
The tondo is painted in tempera on a wood panel, and the painted surface has a diameter of 137.3 cm (54 1/16 in.). The National Gallery of Art dates it to "c. 1440/1460". [3] Art historians are agreed that the painting was produced over a considerable period, with significant changes in the composition, and contributions from a number of hands.
In Michelangelo's sculpted Taddei Tondo, the Madonna is portrayed with the Christ Child outstretched on her knees, accompanied by the infant St John clutching a fluttering bird; and the motif of a serenely smiling Virgin and Child, depicted in contraposto on a dark background, is derived from da Vinci.