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511The Neugebäude pursuits, as he described in his letter to King Maximilian cited above.121 And his own house included at least one sumptuous room, decorated with a set of plaster bust of Roman Emperors and Empresses cast from the best exemplars to be found in Italy, which he had explicitly commissioned in Italy for that pur- pose.122 Altogether it is rather likely that he was involved as an advisor in the splendid decoration of the interiors of at least one tower of the Inner Garden, and of one pavilion of the main building of the Neugebäude, executed in paint- ing and stucco by the painters Giulio Licinio and Bartholomaeus Spranger and the sculptor Hans Mont; what they realized may have been but a fraction of what Maximilian intended.123 It is equally likely that Strada was involved in the selection of sculpture, both antique and contemporary, that was acquired or commissioned to deco- rate the gardens and galleries. Great attention was paid to the fountains, which were commissioned from Alexander Colin, the Flemish sculptor who was re- sponsible for the completion of the tomb of Maximilian i in Innsbruck and for the tomb of Ferdinand i and his consort in Prague. Of the many fountains commissioned, in the end only three would actually be delivered, some years after Maximilian’s death; only recently one of them has been rediscovered and reconstructed at Schönbrunn [Fig. 9.107]. 121 Doc. 1559-06-00 122 Cf. below, Ch. 12.4.2. 123 On these, Lietzmann 1987, pp. 139–160. Figure 9.107 Alexander Colin, fountain for the Neugebäude, now in Schönbrunn. Figure 9.110 Jacopo Strada, drawing of an antique female marble statue now in Munich (shown in reverse). Figures 9.108–9.109 Giuseppe Arcimboldo, design for a fountain for the Neugebäude, and detail.