tondo - A
painting in the shape
of a circle.
Most often found in Italian Renaissance painting, and in paintings of Madonnas. Raphael and Sandro Botticelli painted several tondos.
Examples:
Sandro Botticelli (Italian, 1445-1510), Madonna
of the Magnificat, c.1485, tempera
on wood panel,
diameter 118 cm, Uffizi,
Florence.
Sandro Botticelli, Madonna of the Pomegranate, Madonna and Child and six Angels, c. 1487, Uffizi, Florence.
Italian (Siena?), Mirror
Frame, c. 1490-1500, carved
and gilt poplar, height
24 1/4 inches (61.6 cm), width
13 7/8 inches (35.2 cm), diameter
circle 6 inches (15.2 cm), Metropolitan
Museum of Art, NY. See frame
and mirror.
Filippino Lippi (Italian, c. 1457-1504) The Holy Family with John the Baptist and St. Margaret, c. 1495, oil and tempera on wood (poplar) panel, diameter 153 cm, Cleveland Museum of Art.
Circle of Fra Bartolommeo (Italian, Florence, 1472-1517), possibly Mariotto Albertinelli, Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels, c. 1510, oil on wood panel, Columbia Museum of Art, SC.
Michelangelo Buonarotti (Italian, 1475-1564),
The
Holy Family with the infant St. John the Baptist (the Doni Tondo),
c. 1503-05, oil on wood panel,
diameter 47 inches (120
cm), Uffizi, Florence.
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) (Italian, 1483-1520),
Madonna and Child (Madonna Conestabile),
1502/3, tempera on canvas
(transferred from panel), 7 x 7
inches (17.5 x 18 cm), State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg,
Russia.
Also see curve, kaleidoscope, mandala, and rondel.
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