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705Visual Documentation Figures 13.112–13.113 Ippolito Andreasi, documentation of the Palazzo del Te, Mantova: the Camera di Psiche, ceiling; and the Camera degli Stucchi, end wall; Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast. it results that in his time Bertani had provided Strada with plans and eleva- tions  of Duke Guglielmo’s principal commission, the Palatine Basilica of Santa Barbara, which Bertani had designed himself, the architecture of which Strada considered ‘the most beautiful in its type he had seen anywhere in Italy’. In addition Bertani had provided him with the plans and elevations of the two Alberti churches in Mantua, Sant’Andrea and San Sebastiano, and of Mantua Cathedral (doubtless as modernized by Giulio Romano in 1545). Strada’s for- mulation suggests that Bertani had also been responsible for the measured drawings of the Palazzo del Te which served as the basis for Andreasi’s draw- ings of its decoration. The Mantuan engraver Giovanni Battista Scultori also had been of assistance to Strada. Doubtless Strada had applied to Bertani and