Giovanni Maria Falconetto

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Giovanni Maria Falconetto

Giovanni Maria Falconetto (c. 1468 – 1535) was an Italian architect and artist. He designed the first fully Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
building in Padua

Padua

Padua is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 ....
, the Loggia Cornaro, a garden loggia
Loggia

Loggia is the name given to an architectural feature, originally of Italy design, which is often a gallery or corridor generally on the ground level, or sometimes higher, on the facade of a building and open to the air on one side, where it is supported by columns or pierced openings in the wall....
for Alvise Cornaro built as a Roman doric

Doric order

The Doric order was one of the Classical order of Architecture of Ancient Greece or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic order and the Corinthian order....
arcade. He was among the most prominent painters of Verona and Padua in the early 16th century.

Falconetto was born in Verona

Verona

Verona is a city in Veneto, northern Italy, one of the seven provincial capitals in the region. It is one of the main tourist destinations in north-eastern Italy, thanks to its artistic heritage, several annual fairs, shows and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient amphitheatre built by the Romans....
into an established family of Veronese painters and studied in Rome

Rome

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for a time, in the studio of Melozzo da Forli

Melozzo da Forlì

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Giovanni Maria Falconetto (c. 1468 – 1535) was an Italian architect and artist. He designed the first fully Renaissance

Renaissance

Padua

Doric order

Verona

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
for a time, in the studio of Melozzo da Forli

Melozzo da Forlì

Melozzo da Forl? , was an Italy Renaissance painter near the Umbrian school, the first who practised foreshortening with much success and one of the most outstanding fresco painters of the 15th century....
. On his return to Verona his standing in his rione
Rione

Rione is the name given to a ward in several Italian cities, the best-known of which is rioni of Rome. Unlike a quartiere, a rione is usually an official administrative subdivision....
made him of use to Emperor Maximilian

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor

Maximilian I of Habsburg was Holy Roman Empire from 1508 until his death, but had ruled jointly with his father for the last ten years of his reign, from circa 1483....
, who was headquartered in Verona from 1509 to 1517, during the episode of the Italian Wars

Italian Wars

The Italian Wars, often referred to as the Great Italian Wars or the Great Wars of Italy in historical works, were a series of conflicts from 1494 to 1559 that involved, at various times, most of the Italian city-states, the Papal States, all the major states of western Europe as well as the Ottoman Empire....
called the War of the League of Cambrai

War of the League of Cambrai

The War of the League of Cambrai, sometimes known as the War of the Holy League and by several other names, was a major conflict in the Italian Wars....
, and not simply for painting imperial arms to replace those of Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
that had been effaced on Maximilian's orders. With the return of a Venetian governor, Falconetto and his family were proscribed and seem to have withdrawn to Trent

Trent

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.

Later his career was passed at Padua, where he was drawn by the patronage of Pietro Bembo

Pietro Bembo

Pietro Bembo was a Republic of Venice scholar, poet, literary theory, and Catholic Cardinal. He was an influential figure in the development of the Italian language, specifically Tuscan, as a literary medium, and his writings assisted in the 16th-century revival of interest in the works of Petrarch....
and Alvise Cornaro, for whom Falconetto designed the Villa Cornaro at Este

Este

The House of Este is a European princely dynasty. It is split into two branches; the elder is known as the House of Welf-Este or House of Welf, the younger, as the House of Fulc-Este or later simply as the House of Este....
, (since remodelled), of which an imposing adjacent gate remains. Cornaro's influence with the Bishop of Padua doubtless elicited Falconetto's commission to design the Villa dei Vescovi ("Villa of the Bishops") at Luvigliano, in the Euganean Hills

Euganean Hills

The Euganean Hills are a group of hills of volcanic origin that rise to heights of 300 to 600 meters from the Padovan-Venetian plain a few kilometers south of Padua....
.

Other works of architecture at Padua include the Loggia Carnica, the Porta S. Giovanni

Walls of Padua

The Walls of Padua are a complex of defensive works around the Italy city of Padua, designed to defend it from hostile attack. It was built in 4 phases....
and Porta Savonarola

Walls of Padua

The Walls of Padua are a complex of defensive works around the Italy city of Padua, designed to defend it from hostile attack. It was built in 4 phases....
in the city walls, and the arch in Piazza dei Signori. Nearby, he designed the church at Codevigo

Codevigo

Codevigo is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italy region Veneto, located about 25 km southwest of Venice and about 25 km southeast of Padua....
.

As a painter, several works by Falconetto are in the Museo Civico housed in the Castelvecchio. His fresco

Fresco

Fresco is any of several related painting types, done on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco , which has Latin origins....
s in the Duomo

Duomo

Duomo is a generic Italian language term for a cathedral church. The formal word for a church that is presently a cathedral is cattedrale; a Duomo may be either a present or a former cathedral ....
reappeared in 1870 from under their coat of whitewash applied in 1630 at a time of plague

Pandemic

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. Frescoes securely attributed to Falconetto decorate the Sala dello Zodiaco in the Palazzo di Bagno, Mantua

Mantua

Mantua is a city in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the Province of Mantua of the same name.Mantua is surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes created during the 12th century....
, probably executed c. 1520 for a member of the Gonzaga

House of Gonzaga

The Gonzaga family ruled Mantua in Northern Italy from 1328 to 1708. See Duchy of Mantua for a list of rulers.In 1433, Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga assumed the title of Marquis of Mantua, and in 1530 Federico II of Gonzaga received the title of Duke of Mantua....
family, as Vasari

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari was an Italy Painting and architect, who is today famous for his biography of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art history writing....
remarks, "he produced at Mantua several things for signor Luigi Gonzaga". .

He died in Padua in 1535.

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