The Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Spinola is housed in a stately home built by the Grimaldi family in the 16th Century. Maddalena Spinola greatly altered the building in the 18th Century adding new stucco and frescoes as decoration inside and out. The house was given to the state in 1958 by the last of the Spinola line to be used as a National gallery. It exhibits works of art, by artists like Antonello da Messina, Van Cleeve, Van Dyck, F. Parodi, V. Castello, L. Lorenzo de Ferrari, G. Pisano, Giambologna and Rubens.
