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A tondo (pl.: tondi or tondos) is a Renaissance term for a circular work of art, either a painting or a sculpture. The word derives from the Italian rotondo, "round". The term is usually not used in English for small round paintings, but only those over about 60 cm (two feet) in diameter, thus excluding many round portrait miniatures – for sculpture the threshold is rather lower.
A circular or oval relief sculpture is also called a roundel.[1] The infrequently-encountered synonym rondo[2] usually refers to the musical form.
- ^ Wyke, Terry; Cocks, Harry (2004). Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester. Liverpool University. p. 434. ISBN 978-0-85323-567-5.
roundel: circular or oval frame within which a relief sculpture may be situated
- ^ Artlex.com Archived 2005-04-24 at the Wayback Machine.