A Closer Look: Episode 38 - Santi Di Tito’s Holy Family
When we talk about Florence, we put a lot of emphasis on the Middle Ages and early Renaissance – so much so that one historian termed what came after as “the forgotten centuries”. But imagine being in the city in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century.
You could have bumped into Galileo or Artemisia Gentileschi on the streets, whose scientific and artistic explorations were supported by the Medici grand dukes, their wives and their courtiers. Before 1603, you could have also bumped into Santi di Tito.
Like Artemisia, he was a member of Florence’s Accademia del Disegno, and one of the early artists to adopt a proto-baroque style sometimes seen as a rejection of Mannerism.
In this episode of A Closer Look, Limelight’s Nick Gordon sits down with artist and art historian Dominique Millar, to take a closer look at Santi di Tito’s Holy Family, now in Ajaccio’s Musée Fesch.
You can view a high resolution image of Santi di Tito's Holy Family here.
Dominique Millar
Dominique Millar is an artist and art historian who is well known for his courses on European art and its historical contexts.
Dr NICK GORDON
Nick is a historian of Italy and of Western Europe in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period. He has led tours to Italy, France, Germany, Scandinavia, East Asia and Australasia for more than fifteen years. Nick is a director of Limelight Arts Travel.