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277Imperial Architect: Background of Serlio’s volumes, and it continued in the next decades. Hans Blum’s Quinque columnarum exacta descriptio atque delineatio <…> of 1546, a simple introduc- tion to the design of the five orders proved another bestseller.50 It was soon followed by the first print series of ornamental and architectural designs by Du Cerceau, Pietro Cataneo’s i primi quattro libri dell’architettura, a treatise on military and civil architecture (Venice 1554), Du Cerceau’s Livre d’architecture published in two volumes in 1559 and 1561, and Philibert de l’Orme’s more practical Nouvelles inventions pour bien bastir of 1561. Of far greater and more lasting international influence would be, finally, Vignola’s Regola delli cinque ordini d’architettura of 1562 and Palladio’s i quattro libri dell’architettura of 1570, but these came probably too late to have had great influence on Maximilian’s attitude to architecture in the last decade of his life.51 The boom of architectonic publishing in the 1540s and 1550s indicates that it was a trendy subject; it can hardly be a coincidence that the first examples of ‘correct’ Vitruvian architecture to the North of the Alps date from this pe- riod. Duke Albrecht v of Bavaria took the trouble to obtain most or all of the works cited here, often in multiple editions, and supplemented them by a great quantity of drawings, prints and print-series documenting both ancient and contemporary architecture, as is clear from a slightly later list of the architec- tural holdings of the Munich Kunstkammer.52 So it is perfectly possible that copies of many of these publications had also arrived at the Imperial court, and that some of them actually came to the notice of Albrecht’s brothers-in- law. At a later date Archduke Ferdinand’s Kunstkammer included several of these volumes, so it cannot be excluded that he may have acquired some of them early enough to have been of some use in the planning of Hvězda. Having bought them, or even seen them, does not imply that the Archdukes actually read them, let alone studied them in detail: that they may well have left to their humanist and professional advisers. But the fact that so many of these treatises were illustrated implies that, even when they were not actually read, they still could have an immediate influence on those consulting them. 50 Hans Blum, Quinque columnarum exacta descriptio atque delineatio <…>, and Von den fünff Sülen Grundlicher bericht <…>, both Zürich [Christoph Froschauer] 1550; id., Les cinq coulomnes de l’architecture, ascavoir, la tuscane, dorique, ionicque, corinthie, et composite <…>, Anvers [Hans Liefferinck], 1551, reprinted Lyon 1565, and into the late seventeenth century. 51 Many of these treatises, including several of Du Cerceau’s print series, now digitally avail- able at the site Architectura, of the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance of Tours (http://architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr). 52 Dating from ca 1580–1581; it is discussed by Peter Diemer in his chapter, ‘Verloren— verstreut—bewahrt. Graphik und Bücher der Kunstkammer’, in Diemer/Diemer/ Sauerländer 2008, 3, pp. 223–252, who prints the full, annotated text in an appendix, pp. 240–252.