Rubens,_Ritratto_di_Gio_Carlo_Doria,_Palazzo_Spinola,_Genova

The ''Portrait of

Giovanni Carlo Doria Giovanni Carlo Doria (1576–1625) (also Gio, Gian, or Giovan) was a Genoese art collector and mecenas. A son of Agostino Doria, doge of Genoa in 1601-1603, he was a prominent member of one of the richest and most influential families of the Re ...

on horseback'' is a 1606 painting by

Peter Paul Rubens Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque traditio ...

. It shows its subject (son of doge Agostino Doria) aged 30. It is now held in the Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Spinola in

Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian ce ...

. It was moved to

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

in 1940 and acquired by

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...

on the suggestion of

Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (; 29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his deposition in 194 ...

, before being returned to Italy at the end of World War Two.

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Portrait of Giovanni Carlo Doria on Horseback The ''Portrait of Giovanni Carlo Doria on horseback'' is a 1606 painting by Peter Paul Rubens. It shows its subject (son of doge Agostino Doria) aged 30. It is now held in the Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Spinola in Genoa. It was moved to Naple ...

17th-century portraits