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Doni Tondo
The Doni Tondo or Doni Madonna, is the only finished panel painting by the mature Michelangelo to survive. (Two other panel paintings, generally agreed to be by Michelangelo but unfinished, the "Entombment" and the so-called "Manchester Madonna", are both in the National Gallery in London.) Now in the Uffizi in Florence, Italy, and still in its original frame, the "Doni Tondo" was probably commissioned by Agnolo Doni to commemorate his marriage to Maddalena Strozzi, the daughter of
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Examples.
- Adoration of the Magi (Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi)
- Taddei Tondo
- Doni Tondo
- Pitti Tondo
- Severan Tondo, Roman painting of c. 200 AD
Further reading.
- Roberta J. M. Olson, "The Florentine Tondo", Oxford 2000.
- Moritz Hauptmann, "Der Tondo: Ursprung, Bedeutung und Geschichte des italienischen Rundbildes in Relief und Malerei", Frankfurt am Main 1936.
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