Giovanni Maria Falconetto (c. 1468–1535) was an Italian architect and artist. He designed the first fully Renaissance building in Padua, the Loggia Cornaro, a garden loggia for Alvise Cornaro built as a Roman doric arcade. He was among the most prominent painters of Verona and Padua in the early 16th century.
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