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177In Hans Jakob Fugger’s Service he himself took to Spain to the great court of King Philip, with an infi- nite number of other drawings which he bought all the time, and were commissioned from us to draw for him plans, temples, medals [= coins], arches, columns, statues and other ancient objects that have been found throughout that city in the course of time, and those however that were among the most notable, and were of greater quality than the others.126 In view of Armenini’s inaccuracies, and the provenance from Ambras of the se- ries of drawings of the Vatican Loggia which has been preserved in the Nation- albibliothek in Vienna, one cannot be sure that all these ‘dissegni infiniti’ were in fact among Fugger’s commissions. In any case Strada kept a set of the Loggia 126 Armenini 1587, p. 180. Strada’s identification with the ‘mercante Mantoana’ and the ‘agente’ of Fugger is certain; cf. Davidson 1983, p. 589; and by Edward J. Olszewski in Armenini 1977, p. 134, note 14.