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Parade plate with the Departure of Christopher Columbus from Palos
Equestrian portrait of Gio. Carlo Doria
Justice
Do not touch me
Madonna with Child
Isaac's sacrifice
Portrait of Scipio Clusone with a dwarf page
Portrait of Stefano Raggio
Rape of the Sabines
Samson and Delilah
Giaele e Sisara
Pan e Siringa
Mercury from Argo
Perseus and Andromeda
Hercules and the Hydra of Lerna
Hercules and the Cretan Bull
Hercules and Antaeus
Hercules at the funeral pyre
Hercules welcomed to Olympus
Temple of Virtue. Apotheosis of Nicolò Maria Pallavicino
Meeting between St Francis and St Dominic
Resurrection of Lazarus
Series with large heads of men dressed in oriental style
Flagellation of Christ
Rinaldo and Armida
The Distribution of Soup to the Poor (Feeding the Hungry)
Behold the man
Frame with the Myth of Paris
Sacred and Profane Love
Portrait of Ansaldo Pallavicino as a child
Console and mirror
Journey of Abraham (Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek)
Sorrowful Virgin
Marriage of the Virgin
Series of four Famiglia Rosa vases
Allegory of Fortitude and Justice
Moses worships idols
Parade plate with the Departure of Christopher Columbus from Palos

Parade plate with the Departure of Christopher Columbus from Palos

Matthias Melijn

Displayed in:

National Gallery of Palazzo Spinola

National Gallery of Palazzo Spinola

Piazza Pellicceria, 1, Genoa

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Works of this kind represented a luxury item in Genoese homes and were made by Flemish silversmiths based on designs by local artists. The presence of an episode from the life of Christopher Columbus is not accidental. The explorer's departure from the port of Palos on August 3, 1492 would have given the start to the colonial expansion of the Spanish empire. The Genoese, politically and economically linked to Spain, show these scenes to underline the debt that the empire owed to Genoa, the city where Columbus was born. As can be seen from the expense books of Agostino Pallavicino, father of Ansaldo who in 1650 became the owner of the Palazzo in Piazza Pellicceria, they were commissioned to the Flemish silversmith Matthias Melijn.
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Title: Parade plate with the Departure of Christopher Columbus from Palos

Author: Matthias Melijn

Date: 1630 ca.

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Displayed in: National Gallery of Palazzo Spinola

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