Girolamo Mocetto

Girolamo Mocetto was born into a family of glassmakers on Murano, the island of Venice's glass furnaces, probably around 1470, and he left the trade for painting and engraving. Giorgio Vasari, the biographer of artists, calls him a pupil of Giovanni Bellini, the leading painter of Venice, though no document confirms it.

He is best known for his engravings, many of them signed, and his most successful prints reproduce designs by other painters. His one documented public work is in glass after all. By September 1510 the great painted window in the right transept of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, the Dominican church of Venice, had been installed with his signature on a lower panel. Among its warrior saints it remembered three Venetian commanders killed in the war against the League of Cambrai, the alliance of European powers then fighting the Republic.

In 1514 he drew four town plans for a printed book about Nola, near Naples. The Castelvecchio museum in Verona says he stayed in that city for a long time early in the 16th century, though no Verona document of it has been found. His last trace is a will dated 21 August 1531, leaving everything to his son Domenico.