#tondo

Monumental Painted Wood Carvings by Jiang Miao Center Mindfulness

Madonna and Child with Three Angels (also known as Madonna del Padiglione), (detail), (c. 1493) by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445 – 1510), tempura on wood, diameter: 65 cm (25.5 in), Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan

1978 Philippines, Manila, Tondo

stylobille et aquarelle sur fond de boite de vache qui rit 11 cm de diamètre

Hunt Slonem (American, b. 1951) Turtle Tondo, 1986 Oil on canvas, D 36 in. (91.44 cm)

Tondo from the so-called Coupe à l'oiseleur ("Birdcatcher Cup"), an Ionian black-figure kylix made in ca. 550 BCE. The tondo depicts birds, a grasshopper, and a snake amidst lush vegetation, with a human or divine figure in the center. Some have argued that the shoots are meant to represent vines and that the central figure is Dionysos, but this is uncertain. Provenance uncertain (perhaps Etruria); now in the Louvre.

(Oil on linen, 42 x 18 in.)

21.5 cm diameter