Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto (called il Grechetto), an eminent Italian painter and engraver, was born at Genoa in 1616, and studied for some time under Giovanni Andrea Ferrari. He afterwards visited Rome, Florence, Parma, and Venice, in each of which cities he left proofs of his ability. His Nativity, in the Church of San Luca at Genoa, and his Magdalene and St. Catherine, in the Madonna di Castello, are fine works of art. He died at Mantua in 1670. Some of his engravings are: Noah Driving the Animals into the Ark; The Departure of Jacob; Rachel Hiding her Father's Images; The Adoration of the Shepherds; The Angel Appearing to Joseph in his Dream The Flight into Egypt; The Finding of the Bodies of St. Peter and St. Paul. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Géneralé 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