The Doni Tondo, also called the Doni Madonna, is the only finished panel painting by the mature Michelangelo to survive, held today in the Uffizi in Florence in its original frame. It was commissioned by Agnolo Doni, probably to mark his marriage to Maddalena Strozzi of a powerful Tuscan family, and takes the circular tondo format long associated in the Renaissance with domestic subjects. The composition shows the Holy Family, the child Jesus, Mary and Joseph, in the foreground, John the Baptist in the middle ground, and five nude male figures in the background whose meaning has been interpreted in a variety of ways. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Year Created MediumOil and tempera on panel 1 Medium
Medium (category) Connections
In Form
Source Doni Tondo (Wikipedia)
In Genre
Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Italy, located there.
Sources
1. Doni Tondo (Wikipedia)
Lead section, sentence 1
c. 1507
Lead section, sentence 1 [medium]
Oil and tempera on panel
Lead section, sentence 1 [location]
Uffizi; Florence
Genre reference
The Doni Tondo, also called the Doni Madonna, is the only finished panel painting by the mature Michelangelo to survive, held today in the Uffizi in Florence in its original frame.
In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
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
View the SourceReader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.