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31The Image—Or from Whom (Not?) to Buy a Second-Hand Car neo-Latin poet Niccolò Stopio by Heike Frosien-Leinz is based on a misreading of the sources.70 At about the same time that Hubala was going through the Munich archives in connection with the Antiquarium, in Vienna Harry Kühnel was collecting archival data to document the development of the Hofburg, the principal resi- dence of the Habsburg Emperors in their capital during the sixteenth and sev- enteenth centuries. He published his findings between 1956 and 1961 in a series of articles in the Anzeiger der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.71 In the third part, ‘Die landesfürstlichen Baumeister der Wiener Hofburg von 1494 bis 1569’, published in 1959, he included a brief but significant survey of Strada’s career in Vienna. Though he cites only one document indicating that Strada had some unspecified share in the restructuring of the Hofburg complex under Ferdinand i and Maximilian ii, Kühnel recognized that his presence in Vienna was of considerable interest for its history.72 He carefully lists the refer- ences he found in the various archives, including many financial records which had not been published before. Kühnel is also the first who recognized the importance of Strada’s will, of which he gives a summary. 0.9.4 Renate von Busch and Hilda Lietzmann Jacopo Strada had a considerable share in the conception and realization of both the Munich Antiquarium and the Vienna Neugebäude. Research into the history of these two splendid monuments of the Northern Renaissance led to the two really extensive studies on Strada’s career. The first of these is added as an excursus to Renate von Busch’s 1973 Tübingen dissertation Studien zu deutschen Antikensammlungen des 16. Jahrhunderts. It is sad that this wonder- ful book, whose gifted author unfortunately died shortly after its completion, has never been republished in an illustrated edition.73 On the basis of exhaus- tive archival research, it provides a survey of the earliest collections of  antiq- uities in Germany, culminating in a detailed chronicle of the genesis of Duke 70 Russell-Hitchcock 1981, pp. 92,95, 168 and 221, pl. 209; Frosien-Leinz 1983, pp. 359–361; cf. below, Ch. 8.4. 71 Kühnel 1956, 1958, 1959 and 1961; Kühnel summarized and amplified these notes in a short monograph on the Hofburg in which Strada does not figure, doubtless because no specific contribution is documented (Kühnel 1971). 72 Kühnel 1959, p. 319: ‘Von nicht geringem Interesse im Zusammenhang mit der Baug- eschichte der Wiener Hofburg darf die Tatsache bezeichnet werden, dass eine der vielseitigsten, universellsten Persönlichkeiten der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts hier eine, wenn auch wenig fassbare Tätigkeit entfaltetet: Jacopo Strada’. 73 Von Busch 1973. Though published as a photographically reproduced typescript without illustrations, the book’s significance was widely recognized: copies can be found every- where and it has been cited very often.