For 10 points, name this Ligurian seaport that used to compete with Venice.
One inhabitant of this city was painted standing next to a blue chair holding her gloves while outside the colonnades, a sculpture in a garden imitates her pose. A landmark in this city houses a pirate galleon used in a Roman Polansky film, and features a set of six tall cranes radiating about a center in the Porto Antico. That inhabitant was Geronima Spinola, subject of an Anthony Van Dyck portrait, while that landmark was designed by Renzo Piano, and is the biggest aquarium in Europe.Â  Its people can go southeast past Santa Margherita to stroll the Lovers' Lane at the Cinque Terre national park, and this city lies west of La Spezia and the Levante, and south of Piedmont and Lombardy. Its Palazzo Doria-Tursi displays the violins of Niccolo Paganini, while a monument calls "la patria" its native son ► Christopher Columbus. For 10 points, name this Ligurian seaport that used to compete with Venice.
One inhabitant of this city was painted standing next to a blue chair holding her gloves while outside the colonnades, a sculpture in a garden imitates her pose.
Genoa [or Genova]