Tondo (art)
Videos
A tondo 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 in diameter, thus excluding many round portrait miniatures – for sculpture the threshold is rather lower.
Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi, Adoration of the Magi, c. 1440/1460, National Gallery of Art
Portrait of family of Septimius Severus, so-called Severan Tondo, Roman painting of c. 200 AD, Altes Museu, Berlin
Andrea della Robbia, Madonna and Child with Cherubin, 1485
Michelangelo, Pitti Tondo, c. 1504–05, Uffizi
Champmol
Videos
The Chartreuse de Champmol, formally the Chartreuse de la Sainte-Trinité de Champmol, was a Carthusian monastery on the outskirts of Dijon, which is now in France, but in the 15th century was the capital of the Duchy of Burgundy. The monastery was founded in 1383 by Duke Philip the Bold to provide a dynastic burial place for the Valois Dukes of Burgundy, and operated until it was dissolved in 1791, during the French Revolution.
Champmol in 1686. The cottage-like hermitages of the monks can be seen surrounding the main cloister, with the Well of Moses in the middle.
Philip the Bold and his wife kneel in the portal of the monastery church. Claus Sluter and workshop.
Each of the choir monks had one of these paintings in his hermitage, probably as the only decoration. Cleveland Museum of Art.
The tombs of the Dukes, now moved to the "Salle de Garde" of their palace in Dijon.