Two Studies of a Man

ca. 1575

Not on view

A pupil of Bronzino and Alessandro Allori, Santi di Tito was among the founders in 1563 of the Florentine Accademia del Disegno (the Academy of Drawing). He had a leading role among the generation of late-sixteenth-century Tuscan painters who turned to the practice of carefully observed life drawing to direct their pictorial language away from an abstract Mannerist vocabulary and toward one of greater naturalism. Of great psychological presence, the figure of the balding, bearded man with a flaccid torso in this life study is portrayed with uncompromising veracity. The artist played the softly blended chalk against the white of the paper to create a delicate luminous effect. The naturalistic vocabulary of the figure is reminiscent of Santi di Tito's Resurrection altarpiece in Santa Croce, Florence of 1573–74, and The Supper at Emaus of 1574.

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Title: Two Studies of a Man
Artist: Santi di Tito (Italian, Sansepolcro 1536–1603 Florence)
Date: ca. 1575
Medium: Black chalk (recto); rulings in red chalk and black chalk by early collector (verso)
Dimensions: sheet: 13 3/4 x 6 7/8 in. (35 x 17.5 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2002
Object Number: 2002.72
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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The Resurrection, Santi di Tito Italian, Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper — The Resurrection
Santi di Tito
ca.1580

St. Thomas Aquinas Presenting His Work to the Crucified Christ, Santi di Tito Italian, Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over traces of black chalk — St. Thomas Aquinas Presenting His Work to the Crucified Christ
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ca. 1593

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, Santi di Tito Italian, Oil on wood — Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Santi di Tito
early 1570s

Lucretia, Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) Italian, Pen and brown ink over black chalk, partially incised with a stylus (recto); rubbed with black chalk for transfer (verso) — Lucretia
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Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso), Michelangelo Buonarroti Italian, Red chalk, with small accents of white chalk on the left shoulder of the figure in the main study (recto); soft black chalk, or less probably charcoal (verso) — Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)
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ca. 1510–11

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