Blanton Museum of Art - Gloria, after Rosso Fiorentino

Gloria, after Rosso Fiorentino

circa 1540-1545
16th century
28.5 cm x 22.3 cm (11 1/4 in. x 8 3/4 in.)

Domenico del Barbiere (aka Dominique Florentin) (Florence, Italy, circa 1506 - 1570-1571, Paris, France) Primary

Object Type: print

Artist Nationality: Europe, Italian

Medium and Support: Engraving

Credit Line: Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002

Accession Number: 2002.1836

This personification of Glory, or Fame, astride the globe records one of the figures that flanked a bust of François I in Rosso’s design for the centerpiece of Francois' palace, the grand galerie. Exceptionally nimble in stroke, plastic in form, and equilibrated in design –– poised between the figural and the ornamental –– it suggests why Zerner has called Domenico “one of the masters of printmaking.”

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Prints - Italian 14th-19th c.

prints - Religious Images