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391The Munich Antiquarium exterior facade for a building of two equivalent stories and a length of about twenty bays. But then there is no indication that Stopio had any particular knowledge or understanding of architecture. The Antiquarium Grimani must have played some role in the decisions taken in Munich about the form the new building should take: certainly Stra- da must have been very much aware of it, since in the beginning of the same year he had spent some days closeted with the Patriarch, probably studying his coins and other antiquities, and possibly also advising the Patriarch on his new Musaeum.16 But in Munich a different concept was decided upon: a long, simple hall, a galleria, instead of a square or circular space, a tribuna. It is this concept that determined the choice of site, close to, but separate of the Neue Veste, the ducal Residence. The drawing Fugger sent to Strada, to Stopio and probably to others, shows nothing but a huge rectangle, with a scale of mea- sure and some notes as to the orientation of the planned building written in the margins.17 [Fig. 8.3].18 8.2 The Design of 1568 The first response to the request was a design made by an anonymous draught- sman of Northern German or perhaps Netherlandish extraction [Figs. 8.4 and 8.6].19 It shows a huge building of two floors topped by a steep roof reminis- cent of Antwerp town hall dotted with small dormer windows. Its lower level is articulated by a Ionic order of semicolumns or pilasters superimposed on a windowless wall of rustic blocks, very likely intended to be executed in sgraf- fito rather than in full relief. An intermediate level coinciding with the pedestal zone of the upper level contains rectangular windows filling the lunettes of the vaulted ceiling of the lower hall: an elegant solution which provides sufficient wall space to place the statues and busts and also assures adequate lighting of these. The top level of the facade is articulated by an order of superimposed 16 On 22 Febr. 1568 Stopio writes to Fugger that Strada had refused his invitation for a drink to celebrate the wedding of Prince Wilhelm of Bavaria: ‘Io havevo invitato il Strada per questa matina per fare un poco di allegrezza a memoria di queste nozze, ma l’ha mandato ad scusare, che ha tanto da fare tutto il dì con il patriarca, che a pena ha tempo da mangi- are ...’ [BHStA-LA 4852, fol. 150/142]. 17 The site actually belonged to the neighbouring Franciscan monastery; they were recom- pensed for the loss of part of their garden by with an annual donation only in 1570 [Weski/ Frosien-Leinz 1987, Textband, p. 468, nr. 168]. 18 bsb-hs, Cod. icon. 198 c, nr. 1., ff. 2av/2br. 19 BHStA, Plansammlung 7933.