Seite - 405 - in Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court - The Antique as Innovation, Band 1

405The Munich Antiquarium Strada interpreted the siteplan [Fig. 8.16] as indicating the internal mea- surements of the projected building, which implies that his project [Fig. 8.17] would take up a little more space, i.e. basically the thickness of the walls and the order of engaged columns.36 He projected a long building of 18 × 3 bays, corresponding to a proportion of 6 : 1, and subdivided this space into the main exhibition hall, of 15 bays (that is a proportion of 5 : 1), an entrance with ves- tibule and main staircase taking up the first two bays, and two small cabinets and a service staircase filling the last bay. Details of these subsidiary spaces indicate Strada’s concern for the practical use of the building. The entrance [Fig. 8.18] consists of a quite representative vestibule of two bays deep, the walls of which are articulated by coupled pilasters, and which was to be covered by two groin vaults or, more likely, by a compartmented bar- rel vault decorated in stucco. On the left (south) side, a monumental staircase gives access to the library on the upper floor. On the right (north) side two small spaces probably were intended as a porter’s or custodian’s lodging; its back room includes a narrow staircase which may be a subsidiary service stair, but more likely provides access to a mezzanine with a bedroom for the cus- todian. Under these stairs a latrine was situated (shown when lifting the flap of paper on which the staircase is drawn). The small front room appears to have been heated by a Kachelofen, the traditional German stove of ceramic tiles heated from the back. The same elements, a service staircase over a latrine and a cabinet heated by a Kachelofen, are found at the other end of the building [Fig. 8.19]. Here are projected two cabinets accessible through doors in the lateral bays of the western end wall of the main space. As we have seen, the one of the left (south) side is heated by a Kachelofen, the one on the right (north) has an ample chim- neypiece with its own smoke channel in the outside wall. With the vestibule on the other end these are doubtless the ‘stanze dele [due (?)] teste’, the ‘rooms on either end’ to which Strada refers in his note on the measures used in the drawing. It is tempting, though, to read this name as indicating their func- tion, rather than their position, as ‘rooms of the portrait-heads’, which would 36 Comparing Strada’s ground plan with the siteplan at first sight their proportions seem not to coincide: the siteplan seems longer or narrower that Strada’s project. When taking into account Strada’s comment on these measurements, which he repeats in his drawing, it turns out that he refers them to the internal measurements of the building: ‘242 piedi la longezza dentro i muri computando le stanze dele [unreadable abbreviation: ‘due’?] teste’ and ‘40 piedi largezza [... (crossed out, unreadable] senza i muri’. If one measures the length between the inner wall surfaces, but including vestibule and cabinets at either end, and the width between the pedestals of the semicolumn, one in fact comes pretty close to these measurements.