Giacomo di Castro
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Giacomo di Castro (1597 - 1687) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Naples and Sorrento. He ws born in the Piano di Sorrento. He was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, then Domenichino. He painted the Spozalizio, the Annunciation, and Archangel Michael expelling Lucifer from Paradise in Sant' Aniello in Sorrento.
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- Farquhar, Maria (1855). in Ralph Nicholson Wornum: Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006, page 42-43.
