Tondo (art)
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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
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 Museum, Berlin
Andrea della Robbia, Madonna and Child with Cherubin, 1485
Michelangelo, Pitti Tondo, c. 1504–05, Uffizi
Sandro Botticelli
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Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or simply Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the
Tondo (art)
…intended for immuring in a stuccoed wall. Filippo Lippi's Bartolini Tondo (1452–1453) was one of the earliest examples of such paintings. In painting Botticelli created many examples, both Madonnas and narrative scenes, as did Raphael. According to art historian Roberta Olson, Michelangelo's "only documented…
Probable self-portrait of Botticelli, in his Adoration of the Magi (1475)
Detail from Botticelli's most famous work, The Birth of Venus (c. 1484–1486)
Via Borgo Ognissanti in 2008, with the eponymous church halfway down on the right. Like the street, it has had a Baroque makeover since Botticelli's time.
Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist, c. 1470–1475, Louvre, Paris