tondo

See also: tóndo

English

A tondo, Das Mädchen mit den Dominosteinen by Albert Anker, 19th c

From Italian tondo, from ritondo, rotondo (“round”), from Latin rotundus.

tondo (plural tondos or tondi)

A round picture or other work of art.
- 1983, Rudolf Arnheim, The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, Univ of California Press (→ISBN), page 135:
  As the ellipse becomes longer and flatter, it takes on the qualities of the rectangle. Even more than the tondo, the oval is a playful shape, prescribed by the demands of the setting it bedecks rather than those of the composition it encloses.
- 2014, François Lissarrague, The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual, Princeton University Press (→ISBN), page 34:
  In the tondo of a cup in the Louvre we see a young slave, a pais, dip an oenochoe into a garlanded krater; he is holding a cup in the other hand and is about to serve drinks (fig. 20).” By isolating this detail, the painter implies all the aspects of a […]

a round work of art

Clipping of ritondo, old variant of rotondo.

tondo (feminine singular tonda, masculine plural tondi, feminine plural tonde)

tondo m (plural tondi)

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