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early 17th cen tury, and fell in a pupil of Domenico Piola, but
love with the city. He became a made his name as a sculptor
major influence in the of wood. His fine crucifixes
development of Genoese can be found in churches all
Baroque. Another influence at over Liguria.
this time was Anthony Van
Dyck, some of whose works are
on display in Genoa’s Palazzo
Rosso gallery (see pp76–9).
Among other fine Renaissance
works on show in the same
gallery are Judith and Holofernes
(c.1550–80) by Veronese, San
Sebastiano (1615) by Guido
Reni and The Cook (c.1620s) by
Bernardo Strozzi. There are also
some fine portraits by Dürer,
Pisanello and Paris Bordone.
The Pinacoteca Civica in
Savona (see p140) has interes-
Annunciation by Paolo di Giovanni ting works of art from the same
Fei (14th century) era, including works by Donato
De’ Bardi and Taddeo di Bartolo. Portrait of the Contessa de
as from abroad. In general, most La Spezia’s Museo Amedeo Byland by Boldini (1901)
of the works commissioned Lia (see p128), affectionately
or bought by Genoa’s noble known as the “Louvre of Liguria”,
patrons were not by Liguria’s houses various Renaissance Present Day
home-grown artists. works of considerable value. The 19th and 20th centuries
It was around this time that Among these are the Portrait in Liguria have been more
works by Flemish artists started of a Gentleman (c. 1510) by remarkable for the develop-
to reach Liguria – evidence of Titian and Annunciation by ments in architecture than in
the cultural and commercial Paolo di Giovanni Fei (14th art. Modern art in Liguria lacks
influ ence that the Low century), as well as works by a strong regional identity.
Countries had on Ligurian some of the great artists of the Among the most significant
merchants. The Palazzo Spinola 16th century – including collections of modern art in
di Pellicceria gallery in Genoa Raphael and Veronese. Liguria’s Liguria are the Villa Croce
(see p68) houses several greatest fresco painters, both in Genoa (see p61), and two
international master pieces active in the 17th century, were collections in Nervi (see p93).
dating from this period, such as the rivals Gregorio De Ferrari These are in the Raccolta
the Ecce Homo by Antonello da and Domenico Piola, whose Frugoni in Villa Grimaldi, and
Messina, and Equestrian portrait work can be seen side by side the Raccolta d’Arte Moderna.
of Giovanni Carlo Doria (1606) in Genoa’s Palazzo Rosso. The latter’s vast collection of
by Peter Paul Rubens. The latter Anton Maria Maragliano drawings, sculptures, paintings
artist arrived in Genoa in the (1664–1739), from Genoa was and engravings dates from the
19th and 20th centuries. The
core of the collection consists
of the art owned by Prince
Oddone di Savoia, which was
donated to the community
in 1866. The museum’s
collection is largely regional,
with some works by national
and international artists.
The Sandro Pertini Collection,
in the Pinacoteca Civica in
Savona (see p140), is devoted
to modern art, mostly Italian.
There are paintings by
Morandi, De Chirico, Rosai,
Guttuso and Birolli, and
sculptures by Henry Moore
Fresco by Cambiaso, Santuario della Madonna delle Grazie, Chiavari and Joan Miró.

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