tondo
noun
a round painting or relief.
tondi
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pluralof tondo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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There is more of atmosphere, of colour suggestion, and of chiaroscuro in the marble tondi described above.
From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds
Somehow these tondi, as they are called, became fashionable in Florence about the middle of the latter half of the fifteenth century, and when he was about thirty Botticelli painted a series.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
Over the niches are tondi with the insignia of each Art.
From The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner
The refined features had that subtle expression of suffering and lassitude which lends the human charm to the Virgins of the Florentine tondi of the time of Cosimo.
From The Child of Pleasure by Georgina Harding
