Key facts
- Artist
- Michelangelo
- Year
- c. 1507
- Type
- Oil and tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- 120 cm diameter ( 47 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
- Location
- Uffizi , Florence
- Preceded by
- The Entombment (Michelangelo)
- Followed by
- Battle of Cascina (Michelangelo)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- tondo
- Religion
- Christianity
- Genre
- religious art
- Main subject
- Holy Family
- Movement
- High Renaissance
- Creator
- Michelangelo
- Collection
- Uffizi Gallery
- Location
- Uffizi Gallery
- Diameter
- 120
- Image
- Tondo Doni, por Miguel Ángel.jpg
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- inventory number
- 00287181
- catalog code
- P3
- Commons category
- Tondo Doni
- inception
- 1500-00-00
- described at URL
- www.uffizi.it/opere/sacra-famiglia-detta-tondo-doni
- title
- Tondo Doni
- copyright status
- public domain
- form of creative work
- tondo
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Encyclopedic overview
The Doni Tondo or Doni Madonna is the only finished panel painting by the mature Michelangelo to survive. Now in the Uffizi in Florence, Italy, and still in its original frame, the Doni Tondo commissioned by Agnolo Doni, probably to commemorate his marriage to Maddalena Strozzi, the daughter of a powerful Tuscan family. The painting is in the form of a tondo, meaning in Italian 'round', a shape which is frequently associated during the Renaissance with domestic ideas.
The Doni Tondo portrays the Holy Family (the child Jesus, Mary, and Joseph) in the foreground, along with John the Baptist in the middle-ground, and contains five nude male figures in the background. The inclusion of these nude figures has been interpreted in a variety of ways.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Doni Tondo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.