The Taddei Tondo is an unfinished relief sculpture in Carrara marble of the Virgin and Child with the Infant St John. It’s round (hence “tondo”) and was begun by Michelangelo, according to ...

In the late 1970s the Royal Academy considered selling off its Michelangelo Taddei Tondo, which was then valued at £6m—well over twice what any work of art had ever fetched at auction.

The Taddei tondo can now be enjoyed at the National Gallery until June 2017, and it will be part of a major redisplay of the collection when the Royal Academy celebrates its 250th anniversary and ...

Michelangelo’s Taddei Tondo­—a masterpiece of his early maturity and the Royal Academy’s great artistic treasure—has moved again. The circular, unfinished marble relief of the Madonna and ...

The show features more than 40 works, beginning with the Taddei Tondo (circa 1504-5), Michaelangelo’s only marble sculpture in the United Kingdom. Commissioned by art patron and cloth merchant ...

Michelangelo’s “Taddei Tondo” at the Royal Academy of Arts; “The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John” (ca.1504-05) (© Royal Academy of Arts, London; photographed by Prudence Cuming ...

Although the “Taddei Tondo”, as it’s called (after the patron who commissioned it), hasn’t always been sufficiently honoured by the RA – for years, it was displayed above an out-of-the ...

The 515-year-old sculpture, known as the Taddei Tondo, was given to the London gallery in 1829 to inspire the academy’s schools after the death of owner Lady Margaret Beaumont. Like many arts ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - The only marble sculpture by Michelangelo in Great Britain - The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John, also known as the Taddei Tondo – has been announced as an exceptional ...