Arranged along the walls of the Great Hall of the Genoese Athenaeum are six incredible 16th-century sculptures. Charity, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance, Faith and Hope, depictions of six Virtues, were made by the celebrated Flemish sculptor Giambologna (the author of the Rape of the Sabine Women in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence) and his collaborators, for the destroyed church of San Francesco di Castelletto
