The palazzo Gio Battista Grimaldi is a building located in vico San Luca at no. 4 in the historical centre of Genoa, included on 13 July 2006 in the list of the 42 palaces inscribed in the Rolli di Genova that became World Heritage by UNESCO on that date.
Lorenzo De Ferrari, Hunting Diana, vault of a hall
The palace was built by Marquis Giovanni Battista Grimaldi around 1610, on the pre-existence of four terraced dwellings set above a continuous portico called in the 13th century «vaults of the Grimaldi». In order to facilitate the construction of the new building, it became necessary to break through the vico San Luca. Initially thought to be a project by Alessi, it is now attributed to the Lombard architect Andrea Vannone.[1]
Present in all the rolls of Genoa, the building was included in the Rubensian edition of Palazzi di Genova of 1622.[2] It retains its connotation as a modern aristocratic palace, readable above all through the atrium-staircase system, the distributional solutions and the elevation, which have remained unchanged to this day. In the 18th century, the Grimaldis financed a vast cycle of late Baroque frescoes by Lorenzo De Ferrari.
In recent centuries, after the doge of the Republic of Genoa Pier Francesco Grimaldi (1773—1775), it was also owned by the Pratolongo, Brignole and Cattaneo di Belforte families. The Marquis Niccolò Brignole, who bought it in 1865, commissioned important works to decorate and embellish the staircase, the two noble floors and the upper Belvedere.
Attualmente ospita uno studio di architettura.
Description
Two halls on the piano nobile preserve the decorations commissioned by Luca Grimaldi, Doge of Genoa from 1728. They are works by Lorenzo de Ferrari, the last exponent of the famous family of fresco painters, probably dating back to the third decade of the 18th century. In the room with The Hunting of Diana, on the vault entirely covered with frescoes, the myth of Aurora and Cephalus stands out in the centre, while on the sides is represented the goddess Diana awakening her handmaidens and spurring them on in the wild boar hunt, observed from afar by satyrs. The room with Justice holding the insignia of power still bears the entire decoration that seamlessly covers the walls and ceiling, conceived by de Ferrari with probable celebratory intentions towards Doge Grimaldi.[3] Justice, in the centre, is surrounded by allegories of the effects of good justice and bad justice.
↑ Proposal for the inscription of Genoa Le Strade Nuove and the System of the Palazzi dei Rolli in the Unesco World Heritage List, Volume I — Dossier, p. 274 ff.
↑ PP. Rubens, Palaces of Genoa, Antwerp — 1622, vol. II
↑ E.Gavazza, L.Magnani, Painting and decoration in Genoa and Liguria in the 18th century, p. 108
Sources
Italian sources
L. Lagomarsino, Palazzo Giovanni Battista Grimaldi, in “Arkos”, supplemento al n. 7/2004 “Il restauro dei palazzi dei Rolli”, pp. 60-63.
E. Gavazza, L. Magnani, Pittura e decorazione a Genova e in Liguria nel Settecento, Genova 2000.
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