Santi di Tito

Santi di Tito (Borgo San Sepolcro, 1536 - Florence, 1603) is a painter Italian mannerist of the school florentine.

Biography

Formed in Florence with the workshop of Sebastiano da Montecarlo it meets there Agnolo Bronzino and Baccio Bandinelli. In 1554, it is registered with the compagnia di San Luca , the corporation florentine of the painters, but one knows little of his production of this time, but also because its personality of painter emerges only after one voyage to Rome of the 1558 to the 1564, where it can clash with the more modern talents of the Maniérisme (classiscism of the disciples of Raphaël) and with works florentines of Francesco Salviati.

In the papal city, it works in the decorative companies most important of the moment, like the Palazzo Salviati in 1559, the View-point with the the Vatican with Niccolò Pomarancio (1561-1562), the Casino of Paul IV near Federico Zuccaro (1561-1565).

Returned in Florence, it is accommodated at the court of the Médicis and takes an active part in the life of the compagnia di San Luca , by preparing funerals of Michel-Angel, then by painting the fresco of the construction of the Temple of Solomon in the vault of the company in the basilica della Santissima Annunziata.

Its first works still borrow typical conventions in the Roman way, as in its Resurrezione with Santa Croce (1565), even if the painter directs himself then towards a simplification of his style per return to simplicity and with the sobriety of the beginning of the Cinquecento Florentin, in a certain direction a form of purism which it maintains to his later works and who characterizes painting florentine at least until the arrival downtown of Pietro da Cortona.

He works in the Studiolo of François L {{er}} of Médicis, where its paintings reveal its formal choices, proclamations even in a series of retables in various churches florentines: the Resurrezione de Lazzaro in Santa Maria Novella (1576), the Martyrdom of San Stefano in the church of the Saints Gervasio and Protasio (1579), the Christ in the Garden of Ulivi to the church of Saint Maria Maddalena of Pazzi (1591), the Vision of Saint Thomas d' Aquin with San Marco (1593) and the Year also in Saint Maria Novella (1603).

His/her son Tiberio Titi (Florence, 1578 - 1637) was also an appreciated painter.

He had, enter others, Cosimo Gamberucci, Gregorio Pagani and Andrea Boscoli like pupils.

Some works

  • Together of the series on ages of the life , present at the Museum Fesch with Ajaccio
  • Musée of the Art schools of Chambéry:
    • Several crucifixions including one with the Virgin, holy Jean, Marie-madeleine and holy François of Paule
    • Portrait of old man
    • Portrait of old woman (of her hand)
    • Portrait of woman (of her workshop)
  • À Paris:
  • À Florence:
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