Giovanni Maria Falconetto was an Italian architect and painter. He designed among the first high Renaissance buildings in Padua, the Loggia Cornaro, a garden loggia for Alvise Cornaro built as a Roman doric arcade. Along with his brother, Giovanni Antonio Falconetto, he was among the most prominent painters of Verona and Padua in the early 16th century.

Alvise Cornaro, often Italianised Luigi, was a Venetian nobleman and patron of arts, also remembered for his four books of Discorsi about the secrets to living long.