Title: The Florentine tondo
First published: 2000
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.
Subjects: Art, Italian, Art, Renaissance, Italian Art, Renaissance Art, Tondi, Florence (italy), guidebooks
Places: Florence, Italy
LC classification: N6921.F7 O45 2000