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  • "Radiant Madonnas" shows restored "tondi," or round paintings, from the Italian Renaissance depicting Madonna and Child, from the Rijksmuseum's collection.

    Time Off Europe 2010

  • Sono dei biscotti tondi formati da due parti: la base e la parte superiore che è un anello.

    Ovis Mollis « Baking History 2008

  • The refined features had that subtle expression of suffering and lassitude which lends the human charm to the Virgins of the Florentine _tondi_ of the time of Cosimo.

    The Child of Pleasure Gabriele D'Annunzio 1900

  • According to Vasari, it was at this time that Michael Angelo carved two tondi: one for Bartolommeo Pitti, now in the Bargello at Florence, and the other for Taddeo Taddei, now at Burlington House, in the Diploma Gallery of the Royal Academy, London.

    Michael Angelo Buonarroti Charles Holroyd 1889

  • If Vasari can be trusted, it was during this residence at Florence, when his hands were so fully occupied, that Michelangelo found time to carve the two _tondi_, Madonnas in relief enclosed in circular spaces, which we still possess.

    The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti John Addington Symonds 1866

  • There is more of atmosphere, of colour suggestion, and of chiaroscuro in the marble _tondi_ described above.

    The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti John Addington Symonds 1866

  • The four tondi that contain images of the evangelists above are more of a mystery: Vasari wrote that Bronzino painted two of them, but his style is so similar to Pontormo's that scholars still debate the specific attributions.

    Art Knowledge News 2009

  • The four tondi that contain images of the evangelists above are more of a mystery: Vasari wrote that Bronzino painted two of them, but his style is so similar to Pontormo's that scholars still debate the specific attributions.

    Art Knowledge News 2009

  • The four tondi that contain images of the evangelists above are more of a mystery: Vasari wrote that Bronzino painted two of them, but his style is so similar to Pontormo's that scholars still debate the specific attributions.

    Art Knowledge News 2009

  • "Per la città, in diverse case, fece tondi di sua mano

    Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866

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