Barbiani, Giovanni Battista Simone an Italian painter, was born at Ravenna and flourished about 1635. He probably studied under Bartolommeo. He died in 1650. His finest oil- paintings are at Bologna, being two of St. Andrew and St. Joseph in the Church of the Frafiniscans. His best fresco painting is the Assumption of the Virgin, in the dome of the Chapel of Our Lady del Sudare at Ravenna. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.
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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