Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Madonna and Child [tondo]
Image View:
Overall view of tondo (round painting)
Creator:
Fra Bartolommeo (Italian painter, 1472-1517)
Location:
repository: Museo di San Marco (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Convent of San Marco; Piazza San Marco, 1
GPS:
43.778664 11.259584
Date:
ca. 1516-1517 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
painting
Material:
fresco (pigment on plaster) on terracotta tile
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Measurements:
65 cm (diameter)
Description:
One of two rapidly executed tondi which were framed together in the nineteenth century. They are first certainly mentioned only in 1810, when they were among the pictures removed from the suppressed convent of San Marco to the Accademia. Returned to San Marco in 1924. (Source: Cavallini to Veronese [website]; http://cavallinitove ronese.co.uk/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-FB-CSM-MB-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Madonna and Child [tondo]