Ammanati, Bartolommeo an illustrious Florentine sculptor and architect, was born in 1511. He first studied under the distinguished Baccio Bandinelli, and afterwards at Venice- under Jacopo Tatti, better known as Sansovino. He executed a colossal statue of Hercules at Padua by order of Marco di Mantova, a rich physician and a great patron of the arts. At Urbino he was employed to make the monument of duke Francesco Maria, in the Church of Santa Chiara. He made a handsome monument, which still exists in the Church of San Pietro at Montorio. As an architect, he designed and erected the new bridge of the Trinity over the Arno, at Florence, which still remains, and is considered one of the most elegantly designed and ingeniously constructed specimens of which the art can boast. He died in 1589.
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More