Comment on Thorvaldsen's Small Silver Head - A Ruined Tondo Portrait
[The author’s note in the text] A good overview of the tondo motif is to be found in C.C. Vermeule, ‘A Greek Theme and its Survivals’ ProcAmerPhilSoc 109 (1965) p. 361-397. Winkes includes some represented in murals, see catalogue under Pompeii, cf. also Rom No. 24. For the motif in painting, see also H. Blanck,‘Porträt-Gemälde als Ehrendenkmäler’ Bonner Jahrbücher 168 (1968) p. 1-12.
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