Palazzo Pallavicini Cambiaso

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The palazzo Pallavicini-Cambiaso or palazzo Agostino Pallavicini is a building located in via Garibaldi at number 1 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.

History and description: Originally built from 1558, on behalf of Agostino Pallavicini (+1575), ambassador to the court of Spain, brother of Tobia Pallavicino, who in the same years commissioned the palace at no. 4 Via Garibaldi, today known as Palazzo Tobia Pallavicino. Among Agostino's sons, of particular importance was Niccolò Pallavicini (1562—1619), who hosted Rubens during his stay in Genoa, and commissioned from him some of the major masterpieces of the Genoese period, including his own portrait and the famous portrait of Maria Serra Pallavicini, his wife. The palace, included in Rubens' edition of Palaces of Genoa of 1622, passed into the ownership of the Cambiaso family around the middle of the Eighteenth century. The designer was Bernardino Cantone, a collaborator of Galeazzo Alessi in the arrangement of Piazza delle Fontane Marose and the opening of Strada Nuova. The façade of the building...