Olson,Roberta J.M. — The Florentine Tondo.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000. XXX,376 pp. Ills. Orig. hardcover (clothbound),d./j. 4to. - In good condition.A groundbreaking and now rare art-historical work, written by art historian Roberta J.M. Olson. The book offers the first comprehensive study of the tondo (circular paintings and sculptures) during its golden age in 15th and early 16th-century Florence. - In this important study, Roberta Olson examines a key phenomenon in Italian Renaissance art: the flourishing of the tondo (or circular form) in painting and sculpture in the early sixteenth century, in line with the Renaissance ideal of the perfect form. - Text in English.