McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Castelli (or Castello), Bernardo

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Castelli (or Castello), Bernardo


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an Italian painter, was born at Genoa in 1t557, and studied under A. Semini. He painted a number of pictures for the Genoese churches, the principal of which are St. Diego and St. Jerome, in San Francesco. At Rome he painted Peter Walking on the Sea, in the Basilica of St. Peter's. He died in 1629. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Géneralé.