Palazzo Giorgio Doria, also known as Palazzo Doria Quartara, is located at number 14 in Piazza San Matteo. The building, enlisted in the Rolli Palaces in Genoa, was erected in the fifteenth century by Giorgio Doria, merging several medieval buildings including Oberto Doria’s.
Immediately visible on the ground floor is the beautiful sculpted portal, the work of Giovanni Gagini from 1457, depicting Saint George and the dragon, an emblem reserved for a small number of families well-deserving of their homeland.
For the first time the sculptor inserts a decorative band to join the overhead door with the frame of the portal, thus innovating the previous figurative tradition. Traces of a square decoration emerge on the main façade and in Vico San Matteo, while in Vico dell'Umiltà emerge the medieval wall and the buffered porch. Though the palace belonged to Isabella Gnecco in 1798, it became property of the Quartara family in the second half of the nineteenth century.