Giovanni Casini

Giovanni Casini
Born24 June 1689 
Varlungo 
Died29 March 1748  (aged 58)
Florence 
OccupationPainter, sculptor 
For the Italian astronomer, see Giovanni Cassini.

Giovanni Casini (1689–1748) was a portrait painter and sculptor. He was known as il Varlunga, based on his native town in Tuscany.

References

  • Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 246.


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