Giovanni Carlo Doria

Giovanni Carlo Doria (1576–1625) (also Gio, Gian, or Giovan) was a Genoese art collector and mecenas[clarification needed].

His collection of 463 paintings was partly legated to this elder brother Marcantonio Doria (born 1572) after the death of Giovanni, and elements of it would stay in the possession of the family for centuries.

[2] Other painters represented in his collection included works by Northern artists like Jan Brueghel I, Jan Brueghel II, Antony van Dyck, Lucas van Leyden, and Jan Wildens, but also some older Italian artists like the portrait of his uncle Nicolò Doria by Jacopo Tintoretto, and works by Giorgione, Perugino, Raphael, Titian, and Veronese.

In the 1620s, Simon Vouet was employed by Doria and among a number of large-scale paintings also made a portrait of him, which now resides in the Louvre.

[1] Doria founded the Genoese Accademia del Nudo in his own palazzo in Genoa.