Palazzo Interiano Pallavicini (Interiano Pallavicini Palace), Genoa

The Paolo Battista and Niccolò Interiano palace or Palazzo Interiano Pallavicini was built by the Ticino architect Francesco Casella for Paolo Battista and Niccolò Interiano between 1565 and 1567. It appears as a palace of the highest category in the rolls of 1576, 1599, 1614. It was included by Rubens in his edition of the Palazzi di Genova of 1622.

Towards 1664 it became the property of Gio.Batta Negrone; it was then by the Centuriones, then Grimaldi (1797) and Vivaldi Pasqua, who extensively restored the palace, extending it to the north by the architect Pietro Pellegrini between 1844 and 1851, and finally Pallavicini .

The portal of the uilding, in alternating stone and marble sketches, with cherubs and vases, is surmounted by the coat of arms of the Pallavicino family. On the left side of the building there are three epigraphs of the Fathers of the Municipality (1206, 1427, 1559) as evidence of the Amorose or Marose fountains, demolished with the opening of via G. Interiano, which still give the name to the adjacent square.

Still on the roof there is a garden , a nineteenth-century work by the architect Pietro Pellegrini, consisting of a series of consecutive terraces that gradually climb the hill, preserves some arcades, a nymphaeum, as well as some statues and basins by Traverso and Parodi. Towards the top, the park, still planted today, is scenically concluded by a loggia above which stands the modern building of the Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art , built by Mario Labò in 1971, to replace the destroyed Villetta Di Negro .

In the atrium, the frescoes are by Giovanni Battista Carlone, while the neoclassical statue of Antinous is by Nicolò Traverso , and those of Paride and Elena, by Salvatore Revelli , from the nineteenth century.

In the nineteenth century, commissioned by the Marquis Domenico Pallavicino and his wife Teresa Corsi, the facades were restored and the interior decoration of numerous rooms was carried out. Michele Canzio decorated a hall with Scenes from the Old Testament .