Giovanni Maria Falconetto (1468-1535) als Maler und Zeichner: Monografie und Werkverzeichnis

Giovanni Maria Falconetto (1468 in Verona – 1535 in Padua) represents, as a painter-architect, a distinctive type of artist of the Quattro- and Cinquecento. He repeatedly travelled to Rome and, through his profound knowledge of antiquity, gained considerable importance in northern Italy. In the Vite the artist-biographer Giorgio Vasari praises Falconetto’s drawings after the antique and his architectural designs, while judging him less favourably as a painter. This assessment may have contributed to the long-standing neglect of Falconetto’s pictorial oeuvre.

The present study seeks to fill that gap, offering a comprehensive monograph of Falconetto’s work as painter and draughtsman, complemented by a catalogue raisonné. After examining Vasari’s biographical account, the study reconstructs Falconetto’s life in detail on the basis of securely attributed works and documented events. Arranged by type of commission and patron, each work is closely analysed to define Falconetto’s artistic profile and his place in art history.

Anna Bodenstedt studied art history in Freiburg im Breisgau, Verona and Munich. She received her doctorate in 2023 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with the present thesis. Her doctoral project was supported by research scholarships from the German Centre for Venetian Studies in Venice and the Gerda Henkel Foundation.

This title appears in two volumes. Band I: Text (ISBN 978-3-99181-963-9), Band II: Bildteil (ISBN: 978-3-99181-964-6)