Genoa Art

We were impressed with the art we saw in a single day in Genoa. There is no Uffizi nor other major museum, but scattered about the galleries and palazzos are works of masters and items of great interest.

Luca Giordano big here; his Rape of the Sabines

At the Spinola...house archives going back to the 16th century; not art, but the stuff
that art history is often based upon

Teapot collection

Muy importante: Antonello di Messina's Ecce Homo: the
first Italian oil painting...late 1460s

Show-stopper at the Spinola: Breughel Jr.'s Temptations of St. Anthony

A very, very good student of Bosch (perhaps by way of Sr.)

A magnificent Rubens, his portrait of Gio Carlo Doria
(Rubens and Van Dyke both did extensive time in
Genoa, doing family portraits, profitably, one assumes)

Yes!

Never miss a Rogier van der Weyden (Deposition)

Nor, especially, a Durer Gentleman

And certainly not a detail from a Wildens winter scene

Palace floor

Palace ceiling (see previous post on buildings)

Van Dyck

Also never miss a Guido Reni, and especially a St. Mark sans
chemise 

And an early Mr. Fruity Butt Pants, Ecce Homo

And Filippino Lippi's St. Sebastian (arrows) in sacred
conversation with St. John the Baptist and St. Francis
("Does it hurt much?" "Jeez, try having your head
removed!" "Maybe I'll just preach to the birds")

Another beautiful Pedro Paulo

Rooms full of ceramics and other things I know little about

And then, at the City Hall, a whole room of Paganini

One of his fiddles

Wowsers