# Tondo [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ROBBIA, Andrea della]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Glazed terracotta ## Commentary Above each column of the loggia of the Ospedale degli Innocenti \(Foundlings Hospital\) designed by Brunelleschi is a ceramic tondo. These were originally meant by Brunelleschi to be blank concavities, but c. 1487, Andrea della Robbia was commissioned to fill them in. The design features a baby in swaddling clothes on a blue wheel, indicative of the horizontal wheel in the wall where babies could be rotated into the interior. A few of the tondi are still original, the others are nineteenth-century copies. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Child]() - [Adoration of the Child]() - [Agony in the Garden]() - [Alessandri Crucifixion]() - [Altar of the Sacrament]() - [An Angel in Prayer]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Archangel Michael]() - [Ascension]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()