• The Doni Tondo or Doni Madonna is the only finished panel painting by the mature Michelangelo to survive. (Two other panel paintings, generally agreed...
  • In 1504, they were dazzled by the extraordinary beauty of Michelangelo's David, who was about to paint his “Tondo Doni”.
  • The Doni Tondo was painted after the sculpture of David and this clearly reflected in the colours that shape the volumes of the experience of Michelangelo as a...
  • Michelangelo painted this Holy Family for a Florentine merchant, Agnolo Doni, whose prestigious marriage to Maddalena Strozzi in 1504 took place in a period...
  • The Tondo Doni is therefore a very important work of art because it is one of the few examples of Michelangelo’s painting, together with the magnificent...
  • The Doni Tondo, sometimes called The Holy Family, is the only finished panel painting by the mature Michelangelo to survive.
  • After the sculpture of David, a new masterpiece came from Michelangelo’s mind and hands, but this time is a painting, the Doni Tondo.
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    • 6. It’s a unique work of art in Michelangelo’s oeuvre for a particular reason
    • 7. How big is the Doni Tondo by Michelangelo
  • The Doni Tondo is a circular panel painting of The Holy Family painted by the great renaissance polymath Michelangelo Buonarroti.