Another prominent Genovese family, the Spinolas, donated their palace and magnificent art collection to the city only recently, in 1958. One of the pleasures of viewing these works is seeing them amid the frescoed splendor in which the city’s merchant/banking families once lived. As in Genoa’s other art collections, you will find masterworks that range far beyond native artists like Strozzi, da Messina, Reni, Giordano, and De Ferrari, plus van Dyck and other painters of the Dutch and Flemish schools, whom Genoa’s wealthy were so fond of importing to paint their portraits.