Saint Catherine of Genoa: The Mystic Who Ran a Renaissance Hospital
A Genoese noblewoman who abandoned aristocratic life to manage a hospital through two plagues — and whose mysticism still shapes her city’s monuments today.
Famous Genoese
The people who made Genoa — saints, navigators, artists and musicians, from Columbus and Saint Catherine to Paganini and De André.
Pier Francesco Sacchi: The painter who brought Lombardy to Genoa
Pier Francesco Sacchi, a Lombard painter who made Renaissance Genoa his home and left barely a dozen paintings, each one a small masterpiece.
Luca Cambiaso: The artist who squared the Renaissance and founded the Genoese School
Luca Cambiaso, founder of the Genoese school, pioneer of candlelight painting, and one of the Renaissance’s most underrated figures. His frescoes are all over Genoa.