Valore and Domenico Casini

Valore Casini (1590–1660) and Domenico Casini (active, 17th century) were two brothers, both Italian painters, active in Florence, mainly as portraitists in the first half of the 17th century.

Portrait of Christine of Lorraine

History

They both trained in the studio of Domenico Passignano.[1] Valore particularly was known for his portraits. His brother often completed the vestments of the featured individuals. The brother painted the portraits of Lorenzo, bishop of Fiesole, and his mother Genovessa Popoleschi found over the former's tomb in the Florentine church of Santa Maria in Campo. They painted a portrait of Antonio Susini.[2] One of his pupils was Filippo Furini, called Pippo Sciameroni, wh was the father of Francesco Furini.[3]

Portrait of Pope Leo X

Two other Italian painters with the same surname are known: Vittore Casini worked with Giorgio Vasari, while Giovanni da Varlungo, a portrait painter, was born in Florence in 1689 and died in 1748.[4]

References
  1. Per Domenico e Valore Casini, Ritrattisti Fiorentini, by Lisa Goldenberg Stoppato, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz (2004), Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz and Max-Planck-Institut, JSTOR.
  2. Opere di Filippo Baldinucci volume primo, by Filippo Baldinucci, page 473.
  3. Opere di Filippo Baldinucci: Notizie de'professori del disegno da Cimabue, by Filippo Baldinucci, edited by Domenico Maria Manni, page 412.
  4. Biografia universale antica e moderna ossia Storia per alfabeto della vita; page 227.



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