CASINI, Valore
(b. 1590, Firenze, d. 1660, Firenze)

Portrait of Clement VII

1628
Oil on canvas, 230 x 168 cm
Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, Cerreto Guidi

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 Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici, natural son of Giuliano, the brother of Lorenzo the Magnificent) belongs to this series.




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