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Known Masters and their Immediate Followers.
GIROLAMO MOCETTO.
Born in Murano before 1458: married 1493: living in Venice in
a house belonging to the Morosini family 1514: made his will
August 21, 1531.
There is documentary evidence of members of the family of
Mocetto being settled in Murano from 1389, and Girolamo’s great-
grandfather Antonio Mocetto is recorded as a wealthy glass manu-
facturer. Lanzi’s supposition that Girolamo Mocetto belonged to
Verona thus falls to the ground. There was a family of the same
name in Verona, to which the Muranese branch may have been
related, but there is no evidence that Girolamo spent more time in
Verona than was required for the painting executed by him for the
chapel of S. Biagio in the church of SS. Nazaro e Celso.1 Other
pictures by Mocetto are known in Modena and Vicenza; and
there are two in the National Gallery (Nos. 1239-40, from the
Janze Collection). Morelli may have been right in regarding
Mocetto as a pupil of Alvise Vivarini,2 if one may judge from
the character of the engravings Nos. 5 and 6. I would compare
No. 6 in particular with one of the most important of Alvise’s
works, now in Berlin, which was probably painted about 1485-90
(Catalogue No. 38, reproduction in L. Venturi, Pittura Veneziana,
1907, p. 241), while an even more definite correspondence of
figure is cited in the remarks to the same number. His work
shows also the inssuence of Giovanni Bellini, but his general senti-
ment and style, with his predilection sor hard outline and angular
folds, place him nearer to Cima and the school of Vicenza (e.g.
the Montagnas, see in particular No. 5, below). According to
Vasari he acted some time in the capacity of assistant to Giovanni
1 The date 1493 given by Lanzi, refers not to Mocetto’s panel, but to the
fresco beneath.
2 Before the publication of the documents proving Mocetto’s Muranese
birth, Morelli had already definitely declared in favour of Murano or Venice as
the place of Mocetto’s birth or education (see Kunstkritische Stud/ien, die
Galerie zu Berlin, Leipzig, 1893, p. 78, note 1).
Known Masters and their Immediate Followers.
GIROLAMO MOCETTO.
Born in Murano before 1458: married 1493: living in Venice in
a house belonging to the Morosini family 1514: made his will
August 21, 1531.
There is documentary evidence of members of the family of
Mocetto being settled in Murano from 1389, and Girolamo’s great-
grandfather Antonio Mocetto is recorded as a wealthy glass manu-
facturer. Lanzi’s supposition that Girolamo Mocetto belonged to
Verona thus falls to the ground. There was a family of the same
name in Verona, to which the Muranese branch may have been
related, but there is no evidence that Girolamo spent more time in
Verona than was required for the painting executed by him for the
chapel of S. Biagio in the church of SS. Nazaro e Celso.1 Other
pictures by Mocetto are known in Modena and Vicenza; and
there are two in the National Gallery (Nos. 1239-40, from the
Janze Collection). Morelli may have been right in regarding
Mocetto as a pupil of Alvise Vivarini,2 if one may judge from
the character of the engravings Nos. 5 and 6. I would compare
No. 6 in particular with one of the most important of Alvise’s
works, now in Berlin, which was probably painted about 1485-90
(Catalogue No. 38, reproduction in L. Venturi, Pittura Veneziana,
1907, p. 241), while an even more definite correspondence of
figure is cited in the remarks to the same number. His work
shows also the inssuence of Giovanni Bellini, but his general senti-
ment and style, with his predilection sor hard outline and angular
folds, place him nearer to Cima and the school of Vicenza (e.g.
the Montagnas, see in particular No. 5, below). According to
Vasari he acted some time in the capacity of assistant to Giovanni
1 The date 1493 given by Lanzi, refers not to Mocetto’s panel, but to the
fresco beneath.
2 Before the publication of the documents proving Mocetto’s Muranese
birth, Morelli had already definitely declared in favour of Murano or Venice as
the place of Mocetto’s birth or education (see Kunstkritische Stud/ien, die
Galerie zu Berlin, Leipzig, 1893, p. 78, note 1).