Master of the Greenville Tondo

The Master of the Greenville Tondo is the notname for an Italian painter who was active between ca. 1454 and 1513. He is named after a tondo in the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery in Greenville, South Carolina.[1]

Saint Sebastian by the Master of the Greenville Tondo, c. 1500-1510, in the Princeton University Art Museum

He was probably from Tuscany[2] or Umbria[3] and was a follower of Pietro Perugino, according to art historians Federico Zeri and Everett Fahy. More than twenty works have been attributed to the painter.[2]

Works

• Madonna and Child with Angels, Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery
• Adoration of the Christ Child by Mary and Joseph, Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida (this work is also known as the Jonas Nativity)
• Madonna and Child with the young Saint John the Baptist and two angels, sold at Sotheby's in 2011 for $30,000[2]
• Altarpiece in the church of Santa Cristina in Pancole, Greve in Chianti
• Madonna and Child with Two Angels, Ca' d'Oro, Venice
• Saint Sebastian, Princeton University Art Museum
• Saint Sebastian, New Jersey State Museum
• Virgin Praying, current location unknown
• Holy Family with Infant St. John the Baptist in a Landscape, Walters Art Museum

Notes

1. "Master Of The Greenville Tondo". Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
2. "Master of the Greenville Tondo". Sotheby's New York. January 2011. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
3. "Saint Sebastian". Princeton University Art Museum. Retrieved 9 August 2017.