The Glorification of the Giustiniani Family, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
The present model is for a ceiling of the ducal palace in Genoa (destroyed). At the top of the staircase Jacopo Giustiniani kneels before a personification of the Ligurian Republic. A female in the left corner represents the island of Chios; she holds a scroll with the initials V.I. and 1562, in reference to a sixteenth-century governor of the island, Vincenzo Giustiniani. Figures in oriental dress at right allude to the commercial enterprises of the Giustiniani in Asia Minor.
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