The Master of the Greenville Tondo is the

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for an Italian painter who was active between ca. 1454 and 1513. He is named after a tondo in the

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. He was probably from

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and was a follower of

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, according to art historians

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and

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. More than twenty works have been attributed to the painter.

Works

*
Madonna and Child with Angels
',

*''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

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in 2011 for $30,000 *Altarpiece in the church of Santa Cristina in Pancole,

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*''Madonna and Child with Two Angels'',

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, Venice *''Saint Sebastian'',

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*''Saint Sebastian'',

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*''Virgin Praying'', current location unknown *''Holy Family with Infant St. John the Baptist in a Landscape'',

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Notes

{{authority control Greenville Tondo, Master of the Italian Renaissance painters Year of birth unknown