page_title: Valore and Domenico Casini
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Valore and Domenico Casini / History
context_page_description: Valore Casini and Domenico Casini were two brothers, both Italian painters, active in Florence, mainly as portraitists in the first half of the 17th century.
context_section_description: They both trained in the studio of Domenico Passignano. 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.  One of his pupils was Filippo Furini, called Pippo Sciameroni, wh was the father of Francesco Furini.
  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.
caption: Portrait of Pope Leo X
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