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Chapter 13682 But whereas the latter is a quickly executed sketch, Strada worked out sketch and the measurements given into a finished architectural design drawn with ruler and compasses and enlivened by a light wash. Architectural details such as the capitals and the fluting of the Corinthian columns—not shown in the existent sketches—are carefully rendered, possibly inspired either by Serlio’s woodcut of the arch included in the Terzo Libro [Fig. 13.83] or directly by its example among Serlio’s papers. Moreover the examples used are adapted to the author’s own architectural convictions: thus the central pedestal in the attica is made much wider than in the example, and the cornice, not worked out in the example, is interpreted with an egg-and dart moulding, rather than  with the  consoles present in the actual building and shown in Serlio’s woodcut. Probably most of the drawings in the volumes Strada wished to publish had Figures 13.84–13.85 Here attributed to Jacopo Strada, the Arch of the Sergii at Pula, pen and wash, Rome,Biblioteca Vaticana, Cod. Rossi 618, fol. 42r; and detail of the inscription; © 2018 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Figure 13.86 Attributed to Raffaele da Montelupo, Arch of the Sergii at Pula, Lille, Musée Wicar, so-called Michelangelo Sketchbook, nr. 772.