page_title: Timeline of Genoa
section_title: 16th-18th centuries
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Genoa / 16th-18th centuries
caption_attribution_description: English: An beautifully engraved and extremely obscure 1800 map of Genoa or Genova, Italy. Covers the walled center of Genoa and parts of the surrounding countryside as far as Voltri in the west and Calzo in the east. Detailed to the level of individual buildings with a number of churches, monasteries, convents and private villas noted. The engraver, Bardi, is best known for his intense landscapes and engravings of classical sculpture where he is a master of rendering three dimensional concepts on a two dimensional plane. Bardi's translation of this skill into the cartographic medium is exhibited here in his superb freehand rendering of topographical detail. Bardi's work is extremely scarce and we have no evidence his work ever appearing on the market - though a few maps, including this one, do appear in a couple of major institutional collections. Please take the time to admire the masterful topographical engraving as it is among the finest and most artistically sophisticated we have seen.
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Genoa, Liguria, Italy.
context_section_description: 1520 - Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato construction begins.
  1540 - Palazzo Bianco built.
  1543 - Lighthouse of Genoa lit.
  1576 - Rolli di Genova created.
  1583
  Strada Maggiore laid out.
  Santa Maria Assunta, Genoa consecrated.
  1585 - San Pietro in Banchi, Genoa built.
  1619 - San Siro restored.
  1624 - Basilica di Nostra Signora Assunta, Genoa built.
  1625 - Relief of Genoa.
  1632 - Fortifications expanded (approximate date).
  1639 - Michele Castelli publishes the Genova (newspaper 1639–1646), the oldest newspaper of Italy
  1642 - Alessandro Botticelli publishes the Genova (newspaper 1642–1684), later known as Il Sincero
  1655 - Palazzo Stefano Balbi built.
  1677 - Palazzo Rosso built.
  1684 - Bombardment of Genoa.
  1706 - The church of the Nostra Signora della Consolazione e San Vincenzo martire built.
  1733 - San Torpete rebuilt.
  1747 - Siege of Genoa.
  1770 - Santissimo Nome di Maria e degli Angeli Custodi built.
  1775 - Biblioteca Civica Berio (library) established.
  1777 - The newspaper Avvisi started to be printed.
  1794 - Giardino botanico Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi established.
  1797 - Genoa becomes part of Ligurian Republic.
  1800
  April - Siege of Genoa.
  April - Battle of Sassello.
caption: Map of Genoa, ca.1800
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