Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Spinola
The Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Spinola is a distinguished 20th-century museum housed in a quatercentennial aristocratic palace in Genoa, known since 1959 as a public collection. The building, also called Palazzo Spinola di Pellicceria or Palazzo Francesco Grimaldi, sits at 1 Piazza Pellicceria at the heart of the historic center. A highlight is the ensemble of extraordinary works that once circulated through Genoa’s noble houses, including Antonello da Messina’s Ecce Homo, Antoon van Dyck’s Portrait of Ansaldo Pallavicino, and Peter Paul Rubens’s Portrait of Giovanni Carlo Doria on horseback. The third floor hosts the Galleria Nazionale della Liguria, a legacy shaped by the last two owners, the Marchesi Paolo and Franco Spinola, who donated the palace to the state in 1958 to become a public museum. …
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