Strada, Jacopo de#
Strada, Jacopo de, b. Mantova (Italy), 1507, d. Vienna, 1588, architect, painter, antiquary, numismatist, writer. From 1557 art expert ("antiquarius") and master builder to Ferdinand I, Maximilian II and Rudolf II in Vienna; today his portrait (by Titian, around 1567/68) is on show in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Literature#
D. J. Jansen, J. S. Antiquario della Sacra Cesarea Maestà, in: Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 1, 1982.