Benvenuto Pesce Maineri

[2] Engineer, architect, and professor, he had his studio at the central via XX Settembre 5-7 and, later, in Cornigliano, an elegant district with noble buildings, in Via Tonale and then at his own residence in Via Edomondo De Amicis 19.

[10][11] Pesce Maineri operated in the Ligurian capital at an important moment for the city when its layout was changing and large and relevant residential neighborhoods were emerging.

[14] He also worked on the major urban revolutions that, starting from the lower part of via XX Settembre, which opens onto the area in front of the Genova Brignole railway station and the Bisagno river, reached Corso Italia.

[18][19] He also designed the plan for a basilica "Salvator Mundi in memoriam Cristofori Columbi inanuensis", which was supposed to be built near the Scalinata delle Caravelle in the area called "spianata Bisagno", in what would later become Piazza della Vittoria, in Genoa.

Civic number 26, characterized by a more mature and less academic style, has the sea water as its main theme: spiral algae motifs repeated on the facade and as a constituent element of the anterids, Leviathans that become finishing elements of the arches and uprights of the internal railings, dolphins, and mythological motifs: what distinguishes the building is above all the large bas-relief of the god Neptune adorning the upper part of the entrance door.