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Pitti Tondo
Pitti Tondo is a marble bas-relief of the Virgin and Child by Michelangelo. It was produced between 1503 and 1504 and is now in the Museo nazionale del Bargello in Florence.
External links.
- http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/catalogo/scheda.asp?nctn=00286603&value=1
beautifully set pearl”.
This Madonna resembles other Madonnas from the same artist. For example, it is closely related to Fra Filippo's "Pitti tondo" Madonna, but it lacks “the pathetic girlish loveliness” of the "Pitti tondo" and rather has “a more womanly and mature type of beauty”.
The angel on the right is one of the most curious parts of the painting: he is looking at the viewer with a “roguish smile, more expressive of mischief than of seraphic perfection”