In the third room there are some paintings by Nicolò Barabino (Genoa 1832-Florence 1891), including “Gli ultimi momenti di Carlo Emanuele I di Savoia”, a vast canvas donated to the city of Genoa in 1891 by King Umberto I of Savoy who had commissioned it, the gift was to ensure that the artist was remembered.

Painter of history par excellence, Barabino travelled to Florence in 1857 - where he then undertook the painting of the lunettes for the portals of Santa Maria del Fiore - he was among the frequenters, with the Macchiaioli artists, of the famous Caffè Michelangelo. Well known is one of his trips to Paris, to visit the exhibitions of the French salons and his contacts with the Impressionists, from whom he adopted a lightness and rapidity, rich in fresh naturalism in his small-format works and sketches. In this direction we must read La testa di Abissino, the sketches for the ceiling of the Genoese palace of Senator Tito Orsini, in particular Dante incontra Matelda and for the altarpiece of the Madonna del Rosario in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, also in Genoa.