Baroque Painting in Genoa - Report from Europe - Brief Article

Magazine Antiques, April, 2002 by Miriam Kramer

Genoa became rich through banking and maritime trade. To furnish their palaces the successful bankers and merchants in this city-state employed an impressive number of homegrown painters and sculptors in the seventeenth century, as well as some of the best from elsewhere in Europe. Among the distinguished natives were Bernardo Strozzi and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, and among the visitors were Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Orazio Gentileschi.

An exhibition simply called Baroque Painting in Genoa is on view until June 16 in the Sunley Room of the National Gallery in London. The curators Gabriele Finaldi and Sally Korman have assembled nineteen works from churches, museums, and private collections. Admission is free. The accompanying catalogue may be ordered by telephoning 44-70-7747-5950.