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{{Infobox building
| name                = Palazzo Spinola Gambaro
| image               =  Palazzo Pantaleo Spinola03.jpg
| image_caption       = Facade of the Palazzo Spinola Gambaro in via Garibaldi 2
| coordinates         = {{coord| 44.4109 |8.934736|display=inline, title}}
| alternate_names     = Palazzo Pantaleo Spinola
| status              =  In use 
| building_type       = [[Palace]]
| architectural_style = [[Renaissance architecture#Mannerism|Mannerist]]
| location            = [[Genoa]], [[Italy]]
| address             = 2, [[Via Garibaldi (Genoa)|Via Garibaldi]]
| current_tenants     = offices
| namesake            = 
| start_date          = 1558
| completion_date     = 1558
| renovation_date     =
| material            = 
| architect           = Bernardo Spazio, Pietro Orsolino
| footnotes           = {{Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site
| child               = yes
| part_of             = [[Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli|Genoa: ''Le Strade Nuove'' and the system of the ''Palazzi dei Rolli'']]
| criteria            = {{UNESCO WHS type|(ii)(iv)}}(ii)(iv)
| ID                  = 1211
| year                = 2006
}}
}}
The '''palazzo Pantaleo Spinola''' or '''palazzo Gambaro''' is a building located in [[via Garibaldi (Genoa)]] at number 2 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. The building is now the headquarters of the [[Banco di Chiavari e della Riviera Ligure]].

== History ==
It was built by the architect Bernardo Spazio and then continued by Pietro Orsolino until the end of the work in [[1558]] for Pantaleo Spinola, who died in 1536 without ever living in the palace. After the Spinola family it was owned by the Giustiniani and then by the Gambaro family, who had the nudity of the figures above the portal covered.<ref name="ref_A">''Proposal for the inscription of Genoa Le Strade Nuove and the System of the Palazzi dei Rolli in the Unesco World Heritage List'', Volume I — Dossier, p. 88 ff. Today it is home to a bank</ref>

It was included by [[Pieter Paul Rubens|Rubens]] in the 1652 edition of ''[[Palazzi di Genova]].<ref>PP. Rubens, ''Modern Palaces and Ancient Palaces of Genoa'', 1652, published by Jan Van Meurs in Antwerp.</ref>''

== Description ==
The [[façade]], with its very simple lines, is enlivened by the rhythm of the windows, the overhang of the balconies and especially the [[Portal (architecture)|portal]] surmounted by two marble [[statues]], allegories of Prudence and Vigilance.
The ground floor is richly frescoed with biblical episodes painted in the first decades of the [[17th century|Seventeenth century]] by Giovanni Carlone: ''Susanna and the Old Men'', ''The Judgement of Solomon'', ''The End of Assalon''. It was one of the elder Carlone’s last works, still lagging behind late Mannerist stylistic features. The glass compass, made in [[1923]], in Dèco forms, is remarkable.
[[File:Palazzo Pantaleo Spinola, (Genova) l'offerta a Giove delle chiavi del tempio di Giano, Domenico Piola 02.jpg|thumb|left|[[Domenico Parodi]], Il ninfeo nel cortile]]
On the upper floor are 16th century frescoes by the Semino and Calvi brothers. The most famous works, however, are the fresco cycles by [[Domenico Piola]] and [[Giovanni Battista Carlone]], among the highest achievements of Genoese Baroque. In the hall on the [[piano nobile]], accessed by climbing an elegant staircase, the volta was frescoed at the end of the 17th century, with a mythological subject depicting ''The offering to Jupiter of the keys of the temple of [[Janus]]'', with an allegorical meaning extolling peace, executed by the Genoese Domenico Piola and the Emilian [[Paolo Brozzi]], a specialist in perspective quadratures. The decorations in the other salons are also inspired by Roman history. Again Piola, a dominant artist in the second half of the 17th century in Genoa, is the author of the vault with ''The Sibyls show the Virgin Mary to Augustus'', a Christian reinterpretation of pagan themes, surrounded by episodes depicting ''The Seasons''. Giovanni Battista Carlone was active in two other salons, with ''Episodes from the Life of Lucretia (Ancient Rome)'', ''[[Coriolanus]]'', and the ''Rape of the Sabine Women'''.<ref name="ref_A" />

The salon leads to the terrace, in whose [[nymphaeum]] once housed the famous marble group depicting the ''Abduction of Elena'', one of the masterpieces of [[Baroque]] sculpture executed by the Marseillais [[Pierre Puget]] and now housed in the Museum of St. Augustine.

<gallery>
File:Palazzo Pantaleo Spinola, (Genova), salone principale.jpg|Central Hall
File:Palazzo Pantaleo Spinola 12.jpg|Pierola, ''The Sibyls show the Virgin Mary to Augustus''.
File:Museo di Sant'Agostino (Genova) Pierre Puget Ratto di Elena 09.jpg|Pierre Puget, ''Rape of Helen'' 
File:Pierre Paul Rubens - Palazzi di Genova, vol. II - Figura 06.jpg|Rubens,  [[Palazzi di Genova]]
</gallery>

== Notes ==
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== Sources ==
=== Italian sources ===
{{refbegin}}
* G. Bozzo, Palazzo Spinola Gambaro. Banco di Chiavari e della Riviera Ligure, Genova 2000
* E. Poleggi, Genova una civiltà di palazzi, Cinisello Balsamo (Milano) 2002, pp. 72-73 (Palazzo di Tommaso Spinola di Luccoli (1558-1561)).
* E. Poleggi, L’invenzione dei Rolli, catalogo della mostra, Genova 2004. 
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== External links ==
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* [https://www.gpsmycity.com/attractions/palazzo-spinola-gambaro-(spinola-gambaro-palace)-39222.html Palazzo Spinola Gambaro] (Spinola Gambaro Palace), Genoa
* [https://www.rolliestradenuove.it/rollo/9-palazzo-di-pantaleo-spinola/ Palazzo di Pantaleo Spinola]
* [https://www.palazzideirolli.it/pantaleospinola Palazzo Spinola Pantaleo, via Garibaidi, 1]

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