Farinato, Paolo, degli Uberti an eminent Italian painter, was born at Verona in 1522, and studied some time under Nicolo Golfino. Among his principal works which are at Verona are three pictures in Santa Maria in Organo, representing St. Michael Discomfiting Lucifer, the Mothers Presenting their Children to Constantine, and the Murder of the Innocents. In San Tommaso is a picture of St. Onuphrius. One of Farinato's finest paintings is the Descent from the Cross, in the Church of the Cappucini. He painted a number of other pictures for different churches. He died in 1606. 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