Two Studies of a Man, ca. 1575, Black chalk (recto); rulings in red chalk and black chalk by early collector (verso), sheet: 13 3/4 x 6 7/8 in. (35 x 17.5 cm), Drawings, Santi di Tito (Italian, Sansepolcro 1536–1603 Florence), 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
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Two Studies, Man, ca, 1575, Black chalk, recto, rulings, red, black, early collector, verso, sheet, 13 3/4 x 6 7/8, 35 17.5 cm, Drawings, Santi di Tito, Italian, Sansepolcro, 1536–1603, Florence, pupil, Bronzino, Alessandro Allori, di, Tito, founders, 1563, Florentine Accademia, del, Disegno, Academy, Drawing, leading role, generation, late-sixteenth-century Tuscan, painters, turned, practice, carefully observed, life, drawing, direct, pictorial language, away, abstract Mannerist, vocabulary, greater naturalism
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