About This Artwork

Santi di Tito
Italian, 1536-1603

Study for the Resurrection, c. 1574

Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized), over traces of black chalk, on tan laid paper
319 x 217 mm
Inscribed on former mount (Middeldorf 1938/40, no. 183): "A.13 di Santi di Titi Fiorentino"
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.5509

McCullagh & Giles 288

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," cat. 32 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979-80.

Oberlin, Seattle, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, "From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes," October 14-December 1, 1991, cat. 42, cat. by Larry J. Feinberg, with an essay by Karen-Edis Barzman; also traveled to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, January 27-March 15, 1992; and the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, April 6-May 24, 1992.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Golden Age of Florentine Drawings: Two Centuries of Disegno from Leonardo to Volterrano," May 26-July 1994, p. 70, under cat. 28; also traveled to the Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas; and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (shown in Chicago only).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997.

Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, "The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence," June 6-September 29, 2002; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, November 9, 2002-February 2, 2003; and the Detroit Institute of Arts, March 16-June 8, 2003, pp. 345-46, cat. 208 (ill.).

Publication History

Ulrich Middeldorf, "Old Master Drawings from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries: Two Hundred Examples from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Selected and Described by Ulrich Middeldorf," unpublished manuscript, Department of Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1938/40, no. 183.

Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries. Compiled by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Sandra Haller Olsen (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 74, no. 2G1 (ill. microfiche).

Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), pp. 38-39, no. 32, pl. 41.

Simona Lecchini Giovannoni e Marco Collareta, Disegni di Santi di Tito (1536-1603) (Florence, 1985), p. 29.

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 222-23, no. 288 (ill.).

Ownership History

Peter Lely (1618-1680), London, stamp (Lugt 2092) recto, lower right, in black. Prosper H. Lankrink (1628-1692), stamp (Lugt 2090), recto lower right, in black. William F. E. Gurley (1854-1943), Chicago, stamps recto lower right, and verso lower center, in black; Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection stamp, verso lower center, in black; given to the Art Institute, 1922.