Corrado Mochis

Corrado Mochis ( Cologne , 1525 - Milan , 1569 ) was a German glassmaker .

Also known as Corrado de'Mochis from Cologne , he was one of the greatest glass masters of the Milan Cathedral [1] . He was the author of most of the stained glass windows made for the Cathedral during Mannerist times, many of which are still preserved. For some of them he transports cartoons made by other artists onto glass, while others were the author of the entire process of realization starting from the ideation. He was an apprentice in Cologne at the workshop of his father Johanne Mussche, also a master glazier at Heumarkt. He arrived in Milan in 1544, where he was hired by the Fabbrica del Duomo, for which he worked until his death, which occurred in the fire that destroyed his laboratory in Milan.

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