Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Doni Tondo
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Doni Tondo
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Image View:
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Detail, the heads of the Holy Family, with youths in the background
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Creator:
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian painter, 1475-1564)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazzale degli Uffizi
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GPS:
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+43.768639+11.255214
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Date:
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ca. 1506-1508 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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panel painting
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Work Type 2:
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tondo
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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tempera paint on wood panel
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Technique:
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painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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120 cm (diameter)
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Description:
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This is Michelangelo's only existing documented panel picture. The survival of the original frame, which may have been designed by him, makes the tondo doubly important as the sole intact decorative ensemble in his oeuvre. The frame also provides a clue to the date of commission, since it shows the intertwined devices of Agnolo Doni and his wife, Maddalena Strozzi. It has been suggested that the painting celebrated their marriage in 1503 or the birth of their first male heir in 1507. The relative severity of Michelangelo’s conception of the Holy Family contrasts with the group of naked youths lounging in the background. Tolnay suggested that the youths represent the epoch before the Law, while the Holy Family stands for the era of Grace and the Baptist an intermediary period, which makes sense of the spatial arrangement, but remains speculative. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-MB-UG-DT-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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