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Chapter 5332 rudiments of this art already as a youngster in Giulio Romano’s studio, in his native Mantua. His reconstructions of Roman monuments as illustrated on the reverses of ancient Imperial coins in his numismatic corpus demonstrate both his competence as an architectural draughtsman and his profound theoreti- cal knowledge of classical architecture, doubtless derived at least in part from Giulio’s precept [Fig. 5.89]. The only existent architectural designs for a con- temporary building by his hand that have been identified to date, those for the Munich Antiquarium of 1568, confirm that by that date he was a competent architectural designer [below, Figs. 8.15, 8.17, 8.20].142 And he would not have Figure 5.89 Jacopo Strada and workshop, triumphal arch: reconstruction based on the reverse of a Roman coin; drawing in pen, ink and wash, from Strada’s Magnum ac novum opus, vol. 11, fol. 27r; Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek. 142 Below, Ch. 8.