Genoa is "a place that grows upon every day. . . it abounds in the strangest contrasts; things that are picturesque, ugly, mean, magnificent, delightful and offensive break upon the view at every turn", wrote Dickens in 1844, and the description still fits.

These pages are only here to give you an other key to "read" Genova. What is here represented as "artists work" is simply a pure transformation of the photograph in paint shop into a picture similar to what artists may have seen, when they learned to appreciate the unique colors of Genoa.

By no means this is meant to be art, but it is meant to show you how art may have been influenced by the colors of these buildings with their particular light, which may have influenced the fantasy of so many painters.

If you learn to see these unique things, you learn to appreciate an other specialty of Genoa, which is on no menu-list of it's fine cuisine.