Palazzo Baldassarre Lomellini
Palazzo Baldassarre Lomellini, also known as Palazzo Campanella, sits along the historic Garibaldi route in Genoa as a principal example of Rolli architecture. Built from 1562 for Baldassarre Lomellini, a banker to King Philip II of Spain, it was designed by Giovanni Ponzello, the city’s chamber architect who also worked on Palazzo Tursi. Andrea Semino frescoed the halls with Roman subjects, and only the white marble portal by Taddeo Carlone remains from the original 16th‑century façade, bearing the inscription venturi non immemor aevi. The palace’s appearance was captured in 1622 engravings by Rubens, providing a vital record of its early ornament. By the late 18th century the building changed hands: first to the Salvago family, then, in 1772, to Marquis Cristoforo Spinola, Genoa’s ambassador to France. …
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