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Giorgio Vasari’s Tondo for the Madonna of the Rosary: Angels With Roses, Emblems of Love
Author(s)
Liana De Girolami Cheney
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2023.02.001
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University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, USA
ABSTRACT
In 1569, Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)
completed painting an altarpiece of the Madonna of the Rosary and a Tondo
of angels dispersing roses. The commission was for the private chapel of the Capponi
family in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. In his Ricordanze (Book of Records), Vasari explained the commission as well as documenting the assistance
of his favorite Florentine pupil, Jacopo Zucchi (1541-1590), in the completion of
the commission. This essay focusses on Vasari’s design, location, and meaning of
the Tondo and its emblematic symbolism of love through the rose motif.
KEYWORDS
Giorgio Vasari, Tondo, Madonna of the Rosary, cross and rose symbolism, Santa Maria Novella
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