Michelangelo’s “Taddei Tondo” (tondo means round) is a large circular marble relief of the Madonna and Child with the infant St. John the Baptist. Three-and-a-half feet in diameter ...

A turn of the head then reveals how he put this lesson to good use in The Bridgewater Madonna, an oil painting of the Virgin and Child that recasts Michelangelo’s motif. In the second gallery ...

1508 Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest The first room in the show is dominated by the marble relief of the Madonna and Child, executed by Michelangelo as he was finishing the David. The ‘Taddei ...