Frontisiece of Giovanni Bernardo Veneroso, Il Genio Ligure risvegliato, Genoa: Domenico Peri, 1650. A naked young man in the foreground, inspired by a winged figure blowing in a trumpet, represents the Genius of Republic of Genoa, which focused at the time on the revival of the art of navigation. Many instruments related to navigation are displayed at his feet.