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385The Munich Antiquarium following year.5 Strada was in Munich by the end of July 1568, when he was paid his expenses, and appears to have remained a few weeks: on 25 August Fugger writes to Stopio from Munich, that ‘egli [= Strada] è ito a Vienna’, i.e. had recently left for Vienna.6 During this stay Strada must have further consult- ed with the Duke and Fugger on the display of the collection, the size of which had increased by at least a third by the acquisition of the Loredan statues. In the same letter Fugger tells Stopio that: His Excellency [= Duke Albrecht] has decided to have built a room [‘stanza’] for his antiquities, and as to its layout he wants to follow the plans and ideas of Strada, if at least he deigns to come here<…>7 5 Cf. Von Busch, pp. 119–122. 6 Von Busch 1973, p. 343, n. 98; Weski/Frosien-Leinz 1987, Textband, p. 465, nr. 126; on the same day (28 July) Strada also presented the copies of Giulio Romano’s scenes from the lives of the first twelve Emperors (painted to go under Titian’s famous Twelve Emperors in the Camerino dei Cesari in the Palazzo Ducale at Mantua) he had commissioned for Albrecht V (cf. below, Ch. 12.5). Strada had remained in Venice until 16 June, or returned there by that time, when he dated a letter of recommendation for the sculptor Giovanni Battista della Porta to Don Cesare Gonzaga, Signore of Guastalla (DOC.1568-06-16). 7 ‘S[ua] Ecc[ellenz]a [= Duke Albrecht] e deliberata di fabricare una stanza per le sue anti- quaglie, et circa lordine vuol usare il disegno et parere del Strada, se però si vorra degnare di Figure 8.1 Wilhelm Egkl, the Münzhof, Munich, built 1562–1567 to house the Kunstkammer of Duke Albrecht v.