Falconetto, Giovanni Maria
Falconetto, Giovanni Maria (1468–1535). Verona-born architect and painter. His work suggests the Roman Classicism of Bramante and Raphael, and he was an important practitioner of the style in Northern Italy. His garden-houses, the Loggia Cornaro and Odeon (1524), now part of the Palazzo Giustiniani, Padua, pre-date designs by Palladio and Sansovino, yet have architectural characteristics of the later masters' works. He may have been the first to design a formal country villa, with his Villa dei Vescovi, Luvigliano, near Padua (c.1529–35), which has a sophisticated arched loggia of remarkable architectural quality. He designed the handsome town-gates (Porta di San Giovanni (1528) and Porta di Savonarola (1530))) and worked on the Cappella del Santo (from 1533) in the Church of Sant'Antonio, all in Padua.
Bibliography
Boucher (1998);
Heydenreich (1996);
Lotz (1977);
P. Murray (1986);
Puppi et al. (eds.) (1994)
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