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525Other Patrons of Architecture latter quite elegant and quite Italian in spirit [Figs. 10.14–10.16]. In two of the rooms these decorations are complemented by sculpted figures. In particular the Imperial Chamber, the central and most splendid of the five, may very well have been conceived by Jacopo Strada, not only because of its theme, but also because of its style [Fig. 10.17–10.20]. The division of its ceil- ing is adapted from the Camera degli Imperatori or the Camera di Attilio Regolo in the Palazzo del Te, but the style of the stucco decorations, especially the frames of the round medallions, are very close to similar stucchi in the Palazzo Ducale in Venice which Strada would have known from his visits in the 1560s. The four plaster busts of the Emperors Augustus, Nero, Antoninus Pius and Figures 10.14–10.15 Bučovice, the Chamber of the Birds and the Chamber of Venus. Figure 10.16 Bučovice, a detail of the decoration of the Chamber of the Hares.