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The Doni Tondo or Doni Madonna is the only finished panel painting by the mature Michelangelo to survive. [1] [nb 1] 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 a powerful Tuscan family. [2]
Madonna and Child (Tondo Pitti) c. 1503 – 1504 Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence: Marble 85,8 × 82 cm Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John (Taddei Tondo) c. 1504 – 1506 Royal Academy of Arts, London Marble/Coon (a type of graphite) diameter 82.5 cm Saint Matthew: c. 1505 Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence: Marble height 271 cm
According to art historian Roberta Olson, Michelangelo's "only documented and securely attributed panel painting" was a tondo -- the Doni Tondo at the Uffizi. [4] Michelangelo also created, at the time he was sculpting his David, two carved marble tondi -- the Taddei Tondo and the Pitti Tondo. [6]
[10] [11] For a few years Michelangelo also experimented with the form. He executed the Doni tondo, his only panel painting documented in contemporary sources, and he also began two unfinished tondo sculptures, the Pitti and Taddei tondi, but after that he never returned to the tondo form in either medium. [10] [12]
Raphael, companion portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife, Maddelena Doni, for whom Michelangelo's Doni Tondo was commissioned. Andrea del Sarto, The Young John the Baptist; Andrea del Sarto, Disputation on the Holy Trinity; Sebastiano del Piombo, Martyrdom of St Agatha; Titian, Mary Magdalene; Titian, Portrait of Pietro Aretino
Visitors observing Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo.Uffizi is ranked as the 5th most visited art museum in the world, with around five million visitors annually.. The building of the Uffizi complex was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici as a means to consolidate his administrative control of the various committees, agencies, and guilds established in Florence's Republican past ...
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Michelangelo – Doni Tondo (approximate date of completion) Pietro Perugino – Baptism of Jesus (Oratory of Nunziatella, Foligno) Raphael. Ansidei Madonna; La belle jardinière; Canigiani Holy Family; The Deposition; Madonna of the Pinks; Saint Catherine of Alexandria; Tang Yin – Clearing after Snow on a Mountain Pass