Andrea della Robbia sculpted swaddled babies against a blue background in examples of these artworks at the Ospedale degli Innocenti. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these artworks like Fra Angelico’s Adoration of the Magi which are typically small, circular paintings or reliefs.
ANSWER: tondos [or tondi; or roundel; prompt on rondo]
[10m] Tondi derived from painted Florentine “birth trays” in this non-circular shape. A drum of this shape connected by chains allowed Brunelleschi’s dome for the Florence Cathedral to not require buttresses.
ANSWER: octagon [or word forms such as octagonal; prompt on having eight sides]
[10e] This artist’s many tondi of the Madonna holding a pomegranate include one of her writing the Magnificat. A love goddess arises from a seashell in this artist’s The Birth of Venus.
ANSWER: Sandro Botticelli [or Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi; prompt on Sandro alone]
<Ganon Evans, Fine Arts - Painting - European to 1600> ~20830~ <Editor: Chandler West>