Bartolini Tondo
Painting by Filippo Lippi
The Bartolini Tondo is a tempera-on-panel painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Filippo Lippi. 135 cm in diameter, it is also known as Madonna with the Child and Scenes from the Life of St Anne or Madonna and Child with the Birth of the Virgin and the Meeting between St Joachim and St Anne. It is now in the Galleria Palatina in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The work is mentioned in the Palazzo Pitti inventories in 1761, which mention it as being stored or displayed in the "soffitte" or attics.[1]
History
It has been traditionally dated to 1452–1453 and held to have been commissioned by Leonardo Bartolini of Florence early in the painter's stay in Florence, interpreting mentions in a number of documents as the work. However, more recent studies by Jeffrey Ruda interpret the coat of arms on the work's reverse as that of a member of the Martelli family and re-date it to between 1465 and 1470 by similarities to the artist's final frescoes in the Capella Maggiore at Prato Cathedral.
References
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Filippo Lippi
- Pietà (Florence; c. 1430–1435)
- Enthroned Madonna and Child (c. 1437)
- Barbadori Altarpiece (1438)
- Pietà (Milan; 1437–1439)
- Penitent Saint Jerome with a Young Monk (c. 1439)
- Madonna and Child with Angels and Saints (c. 1440)
- Martelli Annunciation (c. 1440)
- Marsuppini Coronation (after 1444)
- Annunciation with Two Kneeling Donors (1440–1445)
- Novitiate Altarpiece (c. 1440–1445)
- Coronation of the Virgin (1441–1447)
- Annunciation (Munich; c. 1443–1450)
- Annunciation (Rome; c. 1445–1450)
- Saint Anthony Abbot and Michael the Archangel (c. 1445–1450)
- Alessandri Altarpiece (c. 1440–1453)
- Bartolini Tondo (1452–1453)
- Madonna del Ceppo (c. 1452–1453)
- Madonna and Child (Parma; c. 1450–1455)
- Annunciation (London; c. 1449–1459)
- Seven Saints (c. 1449–1459)
- Mystical Nativity (c. 1459)
- Adoration of the Magi (c. 1440–1460; with Fra Angelico)
- Funeral of Saint Jerome (1452–1460)
- Stories of Saint Stephen and Saint John the Baptist (1452–1465)
- Adoration of the Christ Child (c. 1463)
- Madonna and Child (Florence; c. 1450–1465)
- Adoration of the Christ Child (Prato; c. 1455–1466)
- Madonna of Palazzo Medici-Riccardi (c. 1466–1469)
- Life of the Virgin (1466–1469)
- Triptych of the Madonna of Humility with Saints (c. 1470)
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