Tondo
A tondo is a Renaissance term for a circular work of art. The word derives from the Italian rotondo, "round." Since Greek antiquity artists have created tondi, particularly in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth century.
tondo
tonal key - Characteristics of color schemes that convey moods (psychological affects) and aesthetic effects.
Also see chroma key, contrast key, temperature key, and value key.
Tondo
A painting in the shape of a circle. Most often found in Italian Renaissance painting, and in paintings of Madonnas. Raphael and Sandro Botticelli painted several tondos.
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Tondo: - A painting in the shape of a circle. Return to top
Tone: - A quality of a color, such as its tint, shade, value, or brightness; or to create such a quality in a color. To tone down is to make a color less vivid, harsh, or violent; moderate.
The Severan Tondo, a Panel Painting
pf the Imperial Family (c.200 BCE)
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Poetry (Ceiling Tondo) (1511)
Get a wallpaper picture of Poetry (Ceiling Tondo) for your computer desktop. The lyre and the laurel wreath are the symbols of Poetry, who here appears as a winged figure.
The Alba Madonna, on the other hand, has a Michelangelic heroism about it; tender as always in Raphael, but also heavy; masses wonderfully composed in tondo form; a crescendo of emotion that finds its fulfillment in the watchful face of Mary.
The cleaning of the Sistine Chapel ceiling and the Doni Tondo have revealed him to be a colorist of great originality, working with a fully-saturated palette.
The tondo derives from classical medallions and was used in the Renaissance as a compositional device for creating an ideal visual harmony. It was particularly popular in Florence and was often used for depictions of the Madonna and Child.
This is one of the first examples of a tondo, or circular painting, which in the 1400s became popular for domestic religious paintings.
The Holy Family with the infant St. John the Baptist (the Doni Tondo) c. 1503-05 (130 Kb); Tempera on panel, Diameter 120 cm (47 in); Uffizi, Florence
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Glass sculptor John Robinson describes how he reproduced in glass Michelangelo's relief sculpture of the Madonna and Child, known as the Pitti Tondo. Includes a history of the Pitti Tondo.
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He spent the last decade of his life at the Convent of the Blue Nuns of the Little Company of Mary on the Celian Hill at 6 Via Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome, where he was cared for by the Irish sisters.
 See also: Renaissance, Painting, Roman, Composition, Panel
  
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