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6�7The Musaeum: Its Contents show the architectural splendour of such cabinets and demonstrate that they were more often documented in such measured drawings [Fig. 12.46].105 Doubtless Cesare Gonzaga’s cabinet was the immediate source of inspira- tion for Strada’s ‘schöner Kasten’. Its inclusion in the list suggests a considerable time span between this document and the inventory of the Bussoni collection. Strada needed to bring together a quantity of suitable small antiquities to in- clude in his ‘Kasten’. Then he needed to order or, more likely, himself prepare a design for the cabinet, and find a cabinetmaker capable of meeting his doubt- less ambitious demands. Of course this all might have been done during Stra- da’s succeeding visits to Venice between 1566 and 1569, in conjunction with the small coins cabinets he ordered for Duke Albrecht, but it is equally possible that he had it made at leisure when back home in Vienna. In addition to the marble sculptures included in the Kunstschrank, the list mentions a gesso head of Pythagoras, perhaps a cast after the Antique, and a few statuettes. Three bronze statuettes of a Hercules and of two satyrs may 105 New York, Metropolitan Museum, Scholz Scrapbook fol. 298a-r., acc. nr. 49.19.39, and 298b- r., acc. nr. 49.19.40, showing an elevation and a detail of the cabinet; published in D’Orgeix 2001, p. 187 and p. 192, Fig. 47. In view of the apparent fame of Cesare Gonzaga’s cabinet, it is not impossible that this drawing may document it. According to Stopio’s Mantuan correspondent Strada also commissioned a three-dimensional model of the Palazzo del Te from Capriani himself (BHStA-LA 4852, f. 130; cf. above, n. 82). Figure ��.50 Jacopo Sansovino, Statue of Neptune; Venice, Palazzo Ducale. Figures ��.47–��.48 Andrea Briosco, detto il Riccio, bronze statuettes of a satyr and a sa- tyress; New York, Metropolitan Museum. Figure ��.49 Michelangelo, wax study for the young slave for the tomb of Pope Julius  ii, London, Victoria and Albert Museum.