# Adoration of the Christ Child [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GHERARDO DI GIOVANNI DEL FORA]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Oil on wood, diameter 90 cm ## Commentary Adoration of the Christ Child c. 1475 Oil on wood, diameter 90 cm Art Museum, Seattle Coinciding with the Renaissance fascination with the circle, the tondo - or round image - became popular in Florence during the second half of the fifteenth century. Although most tondi were devotional objects, they generally adorned residences rather than churches. Installed above eye level, the tondo was like a window to a heavenly realm where viewers could observe the exemplary actions of beautifully painted holy figures. The oil medium, popularised in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century, gave the images a new naturalism, with figures that seemed more lifelike than the upright figures in the traditional altarpiece format. ## Related artworks - [Bible of Matthias Corvinus \(Florentine Bible\)]() - [Book of Hours]() - [Canzoniere for three and four voices]() - [Homer: Works]() - [Manuscript with Poems by Lucrezia Tornabuoni]() - [Missal]() - [Pope Martin V Confirming the Privileges of the Hospital]() - [St Sebastian]() - [The Combat of Love and Chastity]() - [The Triumph of Chastity]() - [Virgin and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist and the Young St Jerome]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()