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