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Tondo
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tondo
A circular plaque or medallion.

Tondo 

a circular painting or relief. Often the term “tondo” is used to describe only the circular representations of the Madonna and Child characteristic of Italian Renaissance art of the Florentine school from the mid-15th to the early 16th century.

REFERENCE

Hauptmann, M. Der Tondo. Frankfurt am Main, 1936.


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They were pretty much exclusively overhead still lifes, initially oddshaped congeries of candy packages, and then tondi depicting spreads of packages (candy, tobacco) and miniatures (toys, figurines, model railroad scenery)--a whole series was devoted to coded meditations on some of his favorite movies and directors.
Tellingly, Cosimo placed his own dedicatory inscription in the third bay of the building--that is, between his memorial pavement tondi for Salvestro and Vieri--thereby associating himself with two of the oldest traditions of Medici family service to the city: see n.
 
 
 
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