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93Travel—Wenzel Jamnitzer the reliquary—of such objects presuppose a familiarity with Italian architec- ture which Jamnitzer probably obtained through his contacts with his Italian neighbour.54 The few ornamental designs that can be attributed with certainty to Strada himself epitomize a similar ‘stylish’, cosmopolitan elegance as Jamnitzer’s work. Compare, for instance, the title-page of Strada’s Epitome thesauri antiquitatum, printed in Lyon in 1553 [Fig. 2.16], and that of Jamnitzer’s Perspectiva Corporum Regularium, published in Nuremberg in 1568 [Fig. 2.17], the design of which he also used in a silver-gilt mirror frame now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.55 Likewise, the winged Victories crouching over the arches in the niches 54 The Kaiserpokal, which celebrates the Landsberger Bund, is now in the Kunstgewerbe- museum in Berlin. It is not documented, but some alternative designs for the relief of the cup have been preserved; see: Wenzel Jamnitzer 1985, pp. 230 (cat. nr.25) and 346 (cat. nrs. 305–307); Reichstädte in Franken 1987, cat. nr. 318; Pechstein 1988, p. 232, pl. 2. The Madrid reliquary, for which the Visierung as well as some studies and models of individual motifs have been preserved, was given by the Empress to her daughter, the Archduchess Anna, on the occasion of her marriage to Philip ii; it is now in the Monastery of the Descalzas Reales in Madrid and contains relics of St. Victor. See Pechstein 1966, pp. 263–277; Wenzel Jamnitzer 1985, pp. 61–63. The Doric frieze is found already in the design for the Merkel- sche Tafelaufsatz (cf. below). 55 Nuremberg, A Renaissance City, pp. 284–285, cat. nr. 197; Jamnitzer 1568: a facsimile was published in Graz, 1973. Figure 2.17 Wenzel Jamnitzer, title page of his Perspectiva corporum regularium, Nurem- berg 1568. Figure 2.16 Jacopo Strada, his publisher’s mark, from his Epitome thesauri antiquitatum, Lyon 1553.