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Chapter 8398 the Antiquarium is not the only one of Strada’s contributions to this complex, as I hope to discuss elsewhere in greater detail.29 8.4 Strada’s Project: The Drawings As we have seen, Duke Albrecht at first intended to build the ‘stanza per le sue antiguaglie’ according to ‘il disegno et parere del Strada’, that is not only ac- cording to Strada’s ideas, but also according to his designs. This may indicate that Strada already had sketched out some ideas how to realize the concept, and that the Duke had asked him to work these out in a more concrete design once the site for the building had been selected. Once Strada had received the siteplan in early November 1568, it still took him four months to actually pro- duce his designs, which he delivered into Fugger’s hands in the first days of March 1569. Since Fugger had been in Vienna at least since January, doubtless staying in Strada’s house, these designs were partly the fruit of their further de- liberation. This is clear from a letter Fugger wrote to the Duke on 19 February, 29 Meanwhile see Jansen 1987, Jansen 1988(a) and Jansen 1993(b). Figure 8.13 Bernhard Zwitzel, Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, 1562–1563; detail of a print by Simon Grimm, 1676.