Santi di Tito
Santi di Tito (5 December 1536 – 25 July 1603) was one of the most influential and leading
Biography
He was born in
After returning to Florence in 1564, he joined the
Baldinucci recounts that Santi completely rejected the maniera of Bronzino, and embraced a classical Reformist and naturalistic style.
Santi also painted a Resurrection of Lazarus for Volterra Cathedral; a Madonna for San Salvatore al Vescovo; a Burial of Christ for S. Giuseppe; a Baptism of Christ by St John for the Corsini palace, Florence. Santi died in Florence on July 23, 1603.[7]
Santi's mature style is reflected in his masterpiece of the Vision of Saint Thomas Aquinas, also known as Saint Thomas Dedicating His Works to Christ located in the church of San Marco in Florence. It expresses a simple, pious gesture that appeared to have been lost from the courtly sensibility of Italian painting since the days of Raphael, while maintaining the brittle, demarcated colour that is classic of Tuscan works. The work has an earnest fervour lacking in his earlier mannerist works, which sometimes appear like a collection of posed statues over-painted with skin hues. This new contra-maniera style finds some echoes in the rising Bolognese Baroque style of the Carracci.
Among his pupils were Ludovico Cigoli, the leading painter of art Reform in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century Florence. Another pupil named Francesco Mochi became a prominent sculptor in the Baroque style and created, among other pieces, the colossal Saint Veronica, in the crossing of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome."[8]
Works
- Paintings
- Resurrection of Lazarus (1576) - Santa Maria Novella, Florence
- Sacred Conversation
- Annunciation (1576) - Santa Maria Novella, Florence
- Sisters of Phaeton (1572) - Studiolo of Francesco I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
- Hercules and Iole (1572) - Studiolo of Francesco I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
- Pietà with Saints and Military Officer - Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
- Holy Family with St. Elizabeth and John the Baptist'[9]
- Tobie and the Angel (circa 1575) - Saint-Eustache, Paris
- Doubting Thomas (1583) - Duomo, Borgo San Sepolcro
- Crucifixion (1588) - Santa Croce, Florence
- Marriage at Cana (1593) - Villa I Collazzi, near Scandicci
- Supper at Emmaus (1588) - Sant Croce
- Annunciation (1602) - Santa Maria Novella
- Four ages of Woman and the Written Law - Musee Fesch, Ajaccio
- Christ - Mykolas Zilinskas Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well - Blanton Art Museum, Austin, Texas
- Architecture
- San Tommaso d'Aquino oratory, in Florence
- Saint Micheal Rotunda, in Petrognano
- Palazzo Nonfinito staircase, in Florence
- Palazzo Dardinelli-Fenzi, in Florence
- Palazzo Zanchini-Corbinelli, in Florence
- Palazzo di Santi di Tito (own house), in Florence
- San Michele Convent (Villa di Doccia), near Fiesole
- Villa di Motrone, in Peretola (Florence)
- Villa dei Collazzi, in Giogoli (Scandicci)
- Villa Le Corti, in San Casciano
Gallery
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Cristina di Lorena |
Maria de' Medici |
Maria de' Medici
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Portrait of Girl
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Allegory of the State (Pushkin Museum) -
Hercules and Omphalus, Studiolo of Francesco I -
Crossing Red Sea, Studiolo of Francesco I -
Sisters of Phaeton, Studiolo of Francesco I -
Adoration of Magi, Church of St. Martin in Krzeszowice -
Annunciation -
Incredulity of Thomas -
Tobias and Angel, Saint-Eustache, Paris -
Sacred Conversation (Ognissanti, Florence) -
Assumption of Virgin (with Maso da San Friano, in Ognissanti)
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St Dominic's vision of Sts Peter & Paul
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St Dominic and St Francis
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St Dominic dines with Angels
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St Dominic's Death
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St Dominic Saves Shipwrecked
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Villa il Riposo
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References
Citations
- ^ "Art and Theory in Baroque Europe: From Mannerism to Baroque". sbc.edu.
- ^ Bailey 2003, pp. 28–30.
- ^ Bailey 2002, pp. 31–39.
- ^ Collareta, Marco (2003). "Tito, Santi di". Grove Art Online.
- ^ Brooks, Julian (2002). "Santi di Tito’s Studio: The Contents of His House and Workshop in 1603". The Burlington Magazine, 144 (1190): 279–288.
- ^ F. Baldinucci, Notizie dei professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua, (1681-1728) 2, pp. 540-544., ed. by F. Ranalli, Florence 1845-1847.
- ^ Bryan 1889, p. 179.
- ^ Wittkower & Connors 1999.
- ^ Santi di Tito. "Holy Family". Musée Fesch. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
Sources
- ISSN 0003-6536.
- ISBN 978-0-8020-3721-3.
- Bastogi, Nadia (2017). "SANTI di Tito". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical. Vol. II: L-Z. G. Bell and sons.
- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). "Painting in Italy, 1500-1600". Pelican History of Art. Penguin. pp. 620–625.
- Wittkower, Rudolf; Connors, Joseph (1999). Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600 to 1750. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-07941-8.
External links
Media related to Santi di Tito at Wikimedia Commons
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