The Florentine tondo
By: Roberta J.M. Olson.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Tondi -- Italy -- Florence.; Art, Italian -- Italy -- Florence.; Art, Renaissance -- Italy -- Florence.
Description: "Roberta Olson explores an important phenomenon in Italian Renaissance art: the fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century flowering of the tondo (or circular) form in painting and sculpture, which represented the Renaissance ideal of the perfect form. The Florentine Tondo fills a major gap in Florentine artistic and cultural history, collating documentary, textual, and artistic material with new evidence and discoveries about patronage, location, function, and iconography; it also charts the patterns of tondi production and establishes their meaning within a cultural context. In explaining the iconography of specific tondi, Professor Olson illuminates a further facet of Renaissance culture; many of her analyses provide answers to previously puzzling issues."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-356) and index.