tondo
Americannoun
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tondi
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of tondo
First recorded in 1885–90; from Italian: “plate, circle, round painting,” noun use of the adjective: “round,” shortening of rotondo, from Latin rotundus “wheel-shaped, circular, round”
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I suppose this alludes to Michelangelo’s tondo of the Holy Family, but the chasm in taste between the two works is at least as wide as Rejlander’s gulf between vice and virtue.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
The obliteration of Geta’s head made the tondo a statement of the owner’s obedience to Caracalla.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2022
The exhibition’s centerpiece is a tondo, or round painting, called “Terranuova Madonna” from about 1505 that Raphael created shortly after his arrival in Florence.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 11, 2019
In the fourth and most dramatic room of the National Gallery of Art’s captivating Piero di Cosimo retrospective, the walls are devoted to paintings in the round, a form known as a tondo.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2015
The tondo form was a favourite one with Signorelli.
From Michael Angelo Buonarroti by Charles Holroyd
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
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
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
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