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Rh GENOA Gian Giacomo della Porta, the sculptor of the statues of Mark and Luke in the presbyterium ; and Giovanni Maria Passalo and Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli, the sculptors of the corresponding statues of 1Iatthew and John. The stained glass windows of the choir, representing the four patron saints of the city, are the work of Giovanni Bertini. To none of the chapels in the cathedral, rich as several of them are in works of artistic value, can a higher rank be assigned than to the chapel of St John the Baptist. The main design, with its elaborate detail of columns and arab- esques, and foliage and statues, was due to Pio Domenico (la Bissone, who from 1450 was engaged for ten years on the work. Statues by Matteo Civitali of Lucca and Andrea Contucci of llonte San S-avino, a rich and costly baldachin presented by Count Filippino Doria, and stained glass windows designed by Ulisse de’ M-attei, are among the later additions to its decoration. On one day only in the course of the year are women allowed to enter the chapel ; for was it not a woman who procured the death of the Baptist? Amid the profusion of ecclesiastical bric—a-brac in the nooks 155 and niches of the cathedral, there are objects enough of considerable interest. Here, bound together by craft of goldsmith, is an octagonal bowl, brought from Caesarea in 1101, which corresponds to the descriptions given of the Holy Grail, and was long regarded as an emerald of match- less price, but which turned out, when broken by its French purloiners, to be onlya remarkable piece of ancient glass. Of older date than the cathedral is the church of St Other Ambrose and St Peter, if its ﬁrst foundation be correctly churches- assigned to the Milanese bishop Honoratus of the 6th century; but the present ediﬁce is due to the Society of Jesus, who obtained possession of the church in 1587, and employed the skill of Pellegrino Tebaldi i11 its restoration. Among the paintings of this church the ﬁrst place is naturally given to the Circumcision and St Ignatius by Rubens, and to the Assumption of Guido Pteniw The Annunziata del Guastato is one of the largest and wealthiest churches in the city. It owes its ﬁrst foundation to the order of the Humiliati, but S. Marta, as it was originally J - .. ~._ ; <>‘‘.* - c-ti!"-'¥'.‘ c N ‘l ‘ I «T O ...1«'«'q-, -; ' IYATIOII / o« I i In l‘ 1' I 7 . . . ’ ' //*"".' Muuuv . . , Plan of Genoa. 1. Royal Palace. 9. Palazzo Spinola. I ‘2. Palazzo Balbi. ‘ 10. ,, Pallavicini. 3. ., Durazzo. 11. Acquasola. 4. ,, Spinola. 1'2. Villetta. di Negro. 5. ,, Brignola. 13. Pesehiere Pallavicini. 6, H Doria. 14. Giopnlio Gardens. 7. ,, Serra. 15. Serra Gardens. S ,, Adorno. 16. Church of the Annunziata. called, was a small building till it passed about 1505 into the hands of the Conventuals of St Francis, by whom the present gigantic structure was planned and partly erected. The rest of the main ediﬁce was due to the Observartines of the same order, who came into possession in 1537, and gave the church its modern name; and the necessary funds were largely supplied by the Lomellini family. The church is a cruciform structure, with a do1ne, and the central nave is supported by fourteen columns in the Corinthian style. To the unﬁnished brick facade an incongruous portal with marble columns was added about 1843, after the plans of Carlo Barabino. Santa Maria delle Vigne probably dates from the 9th century, but the present structure was erected towards the close of the 16th. '. Dogana or Custom House. . Great Hospital. L. Conservatorio delle F ieschinc. . Deaf and Dumb Institution. 17. Church of San Siro. 18. ,, S. Ambrozio. 19. ,, S. Filippo de Keri. 20. Cathedral. - ‘ 21. Church of Sta Maria di Carignang. 2'2. .. San Stefano. ' '23. University. . Andrea Doria Theatre. 24. Ducal Palace. . Hospital of Sam.’ Andrea. The campanile, however, is a remarkable work of the 13th century. San Siro, originally the “Church of the Apostles ” and the cathedral of Genoa, was rebuilt by the Benedictines in the 11th century, and restored and enlarged by the Theatines in the 16th. Santa Maria di Carignano, or more correctly Santa Maria Assunta e SS. Fabiano e Sebastiano, belongs mainly to the 16th century, and was designed by Galeazzo Alessi, in Imita- tion of Bramante’s plan for St Peter’s at Rome. _ The expense was borne by the Sauli family. From the highest gallery of the dome—368 feet above the sea-level, and 194 feet above the ground——a magniﬁcent vlew IS obtained of the city and the neighbouring coast. S. Stefano dates from 969, and keeps its ancient campanile, but 1t has been . Old Arsenal. 31. Paganini Theatre.