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CASINI, Valore (b. 1590, Firenze, d. 1660, Firenze) |
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Portrait of Leo X1628Oil on canvas, 230 x 168 cm Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, Cerreto Guidi | |
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In the month of April, 1628, the two brothers, Domenico and Valore Casini, consigned five portraits of personages belonging to the Medici family to the Guardaroba, for placement in a hall in the Pitti Palace. The portrait of Leo X is essentially derived from that painted by Raphael in 1518, now in the Uffizi. Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici, son of the Magnificent, attained the papal throne under the name of Leo X in 1513. | |
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