tondo
Americannoun
noun
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”
Example Sentences
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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 Holroyd, Charles
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