1535
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Gloria is a 1535 by Domenico del Barbiere, a Renaissance work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This print shows a woman floating above a globe. She holds two trumpets high. Her body twists in an odd, stretched way. The print copies a sketch by Rosso Fiorentino for a French palace. Rosso worked under King François I. But here the body looks more like Michelangelo’s nudes. They’re pushed into strange, bony shapes. Still, it feels alive. The muscles look ready to move. Next, look up Domenico del Barbiere (Italian, c. 1506–c. 1571).
This print is based on a drawing that Rosso Fiorentino made as part of a design for a fresco in François I’s chateau at Fontainebleau in France. A personified Gloria (or Fame) holds a trumpet in each hand, a symbol of victory, while standing atop a globe, signifying dominance over time and death. Although a clear inspiration, the powerful muscular and sculptural quality of Michelangelo’s nudes are in this figure transformed into a distorted, excessively elongated torso. Such a body was not the result of drawing from a live model but instead derived from the artist’s imagination.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Domenico del Barbiere (c. 1506 – c. 1570) was a Florentine artist of the Renaissance period, also referred to as Domenico Fiorentino, and, in France, Dominique Florentin. He settled and married at Troyes in France…
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