tondo

plural tondos · plural tondi

1. A round picture or other work of art.

   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.

   1983, Rudolf Arnheim, The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 135

   1 more example

   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 […]

   2014, François Lissarrague, The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 34

1. A district of Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines.
2. historicalA historical polity in Luzon north of the Pasig River delta and by Manila Bay