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Chapter 7380 was placed in the centre of this facade, and it opened probably into the cross- vaulted loggia that can be seen on the Steinhausen plan [Fig. 7.7]. These data would allow a very tentative, ideal reconstruction of the principal part of Stra- da’s house as he may have planned it, but for lack of further visual evidence that is rather too speculative to be attempted here. The general type of Strada’s house is Bramante’s very influential Palazzo Caprini, built ca 1510 and since 1517 inhabited by Raphael [Fig. 7.14]: a rustic story articulated by arches, carrying a piano nobile articulated by coupled Dor- ic semi-columns; or the similar house built for Jacopo da Brescia, physician to Pope Leo x, between 1515 and 1519, probably after a design by Raphael himself, where the coupled semi-columns have been replaced by superimposed pilas- ters [Fig. 7.15].24 A very similar type of palace is included in Serlio’s Settimo Libro. It is the first of a series of proposals for townhouses, and is described as ‘una habitatione, per far dentr0 alla Città in luogo nobile’: a qualification which also holds for Strada’s house, as we have seen [Fig. 7.16].25 In most of these examples the facades are articulated by an order of half col- umns, and all top these with a complete entablature, giving them a plastic and monumental appearance. Kleiner’s drawing, on the other hand, shows that the facade of Strada’s house was decorated by the shallowest type of rustica on 24 The Palazzo Caprini was demolished in the seventeenth century. A very similar solution is found in the still existing Palazzo Vidoni-Caffarelli, designed by a pupil of Raphael, prob- ably Lorenzo Lotti, Giulio Romano’s brother-in-law. 25 The ‘botteghe’, the small shops or workshops peculiar for Roman palaces, lack in Strada’s house; these were unusual in Vienna, and would have impeded good lighting in the huge cellars over which most Viennese dwellings, including Strada’s, were built. Moreover they would hardly have been functional. Figure 7.15 Attributed to Raphael, house for Jacopo da Brescia, Rome; ca 1515–1519 (demol- ished ca 1936). Figure 7.14 Donato Bramante, Palazzo Caprini, Rome; ca 1510, from 1517 inhabited by Raphael; engraving by Antonio Lafréry, 1549.