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399The Munich Antiquarium instructing him about the roof construction, and asking him to decide whether he wished window frames and staircases in wood or in stone.30 Strada’s drawings for the project have not been preserved together, reason why they were not recognized as belonging to one consistent project until Renate von Busch’s painstaking examination of the sources. They are: – the siteplan [Figs. 8.3 and 8.16], preserved in the Bayerische Staatsbiblio- thek, Cod. icon. 198 c, nr. 1., ff. 2av/2br; it includes notes in Italian in Fugger’s hand on the orientation of the site; Strada based his designs on this plan or an identical copy of it (cf. above); – a ground-plan [Figs. 8.17–8.19], preserved in the Bayerisches Staatsarchiv, Plansammlung 7939; it repeats verbatim in Strada’s hand most of Fugger’s annotations; – an interior elevation [Fig. 8.20]; preserved with the siteplan and other mate- rial relating to the Antiquarium in the Staatsbibliothek, Cod. Icon. 198 c, nr. 2. fol. 3r; – an exterior elevation [Fig. 8.15], preserved in the Bayerisches Staatsarchiv, Plansammlung 7931/9584. These drawings are all intimately related: the ground-plan repeats verbatim in Strada’s hand the notes in Italian Fugger had jotted onto the siteplan; the inte- rior elevation, preserved with the siteplan, exactly tallies with the ground-plan; the exterior elevation is drawn on the same paper from Ferrara as the interior elevation, and again its proportions correspond closely to those of the ground- plan. Moreover all three designs are drawn in the same technique, a fine pen in a light brown ink over underdrawings in pencil, and the hand also appears to be the same. This technique is the habitual technique of Strada’s workshop; the yellow wash used in the exterior elevation is found in some of Strada’s decora- tive and numismatic drawings. Moreover the style of the designs corresponds closely to the architectural reverses among Strada’s numismatic drawings [see 30 DOC. 1569-02-19; cited in Hartig 1933, pp. 221–222, and Hubala 1958–59, p. 134. Fugger was in Vienna to negotiate on behalf of Duke Albrecht in the matter of the Landsberger Bund, from at least mid January 1569, when Stopio writes to him there [BHStA-LA 4852, fol. 207/198 ff.] until at least 30 March 1569, when he still dated a letter to Stopio from there [BHStA-LA 4852, fol. 228/219]. On 5 March 1569 Fugger wrote to the Duke: ‘... von Im [= Strada] die Pedestal unnd ubrigen stuckh der colonna genommen darzue den abri ßdes gebews...’; he then reports Strada’s suggestions to the Duke; an undated note in Strada’s hand referring to details such as the window frames and the ceiling decoration of the library likewise refers to these discussions; cited in Von Busch 1973, pp. 133 and 301–302, and Lietzman 1987, p. 125.