1.1 Van Dyck, Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo and an African Servant, 1623 2
1.2 Van Dyck, Anton Giulio Brignole Sale on horseback, 1627 3
1.3 Van Dyck, Paolina Adorno Brignole Sale, 1627 5
1.4 Strada Nuova, Genoa, nineteenth-century photograph by Alfred Noack 8
1.5 IMITATIO SAPIENS from the life of Van Dyck in G.P. Bellori, Le vite deâ pittori, scultori e architetti moderni 10
1.6 Rubens, Brigida Spinola Doria, 1606 12
1.7 Rubens, Giovan Carlo Doria, 1606 13
1.8 G.B. Castiglione, Anton Giulio Brignole Sale from La gloria degli Incogniti, 1647 16
2.1 Medieval tower traditionally associated with Palazzo Embriaco, Genoa 20
2.2 Personification of Liguria from Cesare Ripa, Iconologia, 1611 23
3.1 Andrea Semino and workshop, Doge Simone Spinola, ca. 1570 52
3.2 Agnolo Bronzino, Andrea Doria as Neptune, 1545â6 53
3.3 Titian, Giacomo Doria, 1530â35 54
3.4 Guilliam van Deynen, Genoese lady (Claudia Lomellini?), 1610 55
3.5 Van Dyck, Porzia Imperiale and her daughter Maria Francesca, 1625â7 57
3.6 Van Dyck, The Lomellini Family, 1625â7 58
3.7 Villa of Lorenzo Cattaneo, 1502 60
3.8 Villa of Andrea Doria, detail from Alessandro Baratta, La Famosissima E Nobilissimo Città Di Genova, engraving, 1637 62
3.9 Van Dyck, Maddalena Cattaneo, 1623 74
3.10 Van Dyck, Filippo Cattaneo, 1623 75
3.11 Taddeo Carlone, bust of Franco Lercari, 1581, Palazzo Lercari 81
3.12 Fresco of route to a distant villa, late 16th century, Palazzo Lercari 82
3.13 Fresco of palace in a country setting, Palazzo Angelo Giovanni Spinola, late 16th century 83
3.14 Gio Battista Carlone and Battista Orsolino, lateral loggia of Palazzo Tursi (ex-Grimaldi), 1597 85
3.15 Space for parterre between palace and loggia, Palazzo Tursi (ex-Grimaldi) 86
3.16 Cristoforo Grassi, view of the port of Genoa, 1597 93
3.17 Agostino Carracci after Bernardo Castello, title-page of Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, first Genoese edition, 1590, view of Genoa from the sea 94
3.18 Jan Massys, Venus as Flora with a view of Genoa, 1561 95
3.19 Perino del Vaga et al., Palazzo del Principe (Villa of Andrea Doria), ca. 1530, arcading 96
3.20 Anon, drawing of Strada Nuova in scenographic mode, early 17th century (?) 101
3.21 Sebastiano Serlio, Scena Tragica, from De architectura libri quinque, 1569 102
3.22 Andrea Andreani, chiaroscuro woodcut of Bartolomeo Neroni, proscenium and scene for the staging of LâOrtensio by the Accademia degli Intronati, Siena, 1589 103
3.23 Marcello Sparzo, herms on the façade of Palazzo Nicolosio Lomellino, 1566â9 (?) 104
3.24 Taddeo Carlone, mascheroni on the façade of Palazzo Tursi (ex-Grimaldi), ca. 1575 105
3.25 Gio Battista Carlone and Battista Orsolino, western lateral loggia Palazzo Tursi (ex-Grimaldi) for Gian Andrea Doria, 1597 106
3.26 Palazzo Lercari, portico, telamons 108
3.27 Palazzo Lercari, portico, lionsâ heads 109
3.28 Andrea Vannone, Villa Saluzzo, âil Paradisoâ, 1590s 112
3.29 Domenico Parodi, nymphaeum to underlie the Fall of Phaeton, post 1711 122
3.30 Pietro Francavilla, Giano bifronte, ca. 1585 124
3.31 G.B. Castello il Bergamasco, Fall of Phaeton, ca. 1560 125
3.32 Domenico Scorticone and Giacomo Porta, renewal of the interior, church of Santissima Annunziata del Vastato, 1616â25, nave columns 129
4.1 Van Dyck, Geronima Sale Brignole and her daughter Maria Aurelia, 1627 135
4.2 Karel van Mander, Schilder Boeck, title page, second edition, 1618 137
4.3 Anonymous engraver, frontispiece of Anton Giulio Brignole Sale, La Colonna Per LâAnime Del Purgatorio 138
4.4 Church of San Matteo, founded 1125, façade, incised inscriptions of the deeds of the Doria, detail 140
4.5 Tintoretto, Niccolò Doria, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 1545 141
4.6 Van Dyck, Filippo Spinola, count of Tassarolo, 1625â7 152
4.7 Perino del Vaga, loggia of the Eroi Doria, 1529â33 (?) 173
4.8 Van Dyck, Tommaso Raggi, 1625â7 175
4.9 Van Dyck, Raffaele Raggi (?), 1625â7 176
5.1 Giuseppe Cesari, Cavaliere dâArpino, Judith with the head of Holofernes, preparatory drawing for fresco in Villa Belvedere at Frascati, 1602â3 211
5.2 Titian, Count Baldassare Castiglione, ca. 1536â8 228