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Chapter ��578 I also possess a beautiful choice of antique medals, together with a book of drawings of them, which begins at the reign of Nerva and ends at that of Alexander Severus, the son of Julia Mammea. This book was judged by Pope Julius del Monte [Pope Julius iii], my patron, and by all the Cardinals that saw it at that time, the most beautiful and made with the greatest judgment they had ever seen. The same was thought in France and in Germany; the most excellent Lord Duke of Ferrara, when he found himself in my house together with Count Francesco da Novel- lara likewise confirmed the opinion of the other Princes mentioned here. In my library there are thirteen big volumes of descriptions of medals that have been seen by me wherever I have been in the world: they count over twelve thousand descriptions. There are also seven big volumes of antique inscriptions that I have collected, and lately I have added to them those [found] in Turkey, in Egypt and in Hungary, and in all the lands [now] occupied by the Turks. At present in my house is written a Dictionary of eleven languages, which is a task at which I have laboured for eighteen years, during which I always have maintained people at work at it. These are the languag- es: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Spanish, French, German and Italian; and at the appropriate places I insert [im- ages of] the medals, marble statues, epitaphs, and whatever else it is pos- sible to show in pictures. Many other things I have here, which in great part have been seen by those gentlemen from the court of Your Excellency that have passed by here; which, in order not to take up any more of your time, I do not want to mention all here. All these things I offer to Your Excellency; should you wish to avail yourself of this, I am at your command; and when my books will be finished Your Excellency will have his part of them. A few years later Strada offered to present his collections, which he indicated as his ‘khunstkamer’ to the Elector August of Saxony, as a gift in exchange for a pension for himself and his children. For this he gave two reasons: on the one hand because, at his advanced age, he was often subject to diseases and he was afraid that after his death his collection might end up in the wrong hands; on the other hand because he hoped that work on the immense illustrated dic- tionary he was preparing could thus continue under the aegis of the Elector.4 He gave a brief description which is worth quoting: 4 The letter only survives in a German translation made at the Dresden court: Doc. 1575-09-28, published and first commented in Lietzmann 1997 (Dokument 2), pp. 396–397.
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Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court The Antique as Innovation, Band 2
Titel
Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court
Untertitel
The Antique as Innovation
Band
2
Autor
Dirk Jacob Jansen
Verlag
Brill
Ort
Leiden
Datum
2019
Sprache
englisch
Lizenz
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
ISBN
978-90-04-35949-9
Abmessungen
15.8 x 24.1 cm
Seiten
542
Kategorien
Biographien
Kunst und Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  1. 11 The Musaeum: Strada’s Circle 547
    1. 11.1 Strada’s House 547
    2. 11.2 High-ranking Visitors: Strada’s Guest Book and Ottavio’s Stammbuch 548
    3. 11.3 ‘Urbanissime Strada’: Accessibility of and Hospitality in the Musaeum 554
    4. 11.4 Intellectual Associates 556
    5. 11.5 Strada’s Confessional Position 566
    6. 11.6 Contacts with Members of the Dynasty 570
  2. 12 The Musaeum: its Contents 576
    1. 12.1 Introduction 576
    2. 12.2 Strada’s own Descriptions of his Musaeum 577
    3. 12.3 Strada’s Acquisitions for Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria 580
    4. 12.4 Strada’s own Cabinet of Antiquities 592
    5. 12.5 Acquisitions of Other Materials in Venice 599
    6. 12.6 Commissions in Mantua 610
    7. 12.7 ‘Gemalte Lustigen Tiecher’: Contemporary Painting in Strada’s Musaeum 615
    8. 12.8 Conclusion 628
  3. 13 Books, Prints and Drawings: The Musaeum as a centre of visualdocumentation 629
    1. 13.1 Introduction 629
    2. 13.2 Strada’s Acquisition of Drawings 630
    3. 13.3 ‘Owls to Athens’: Some Documents Relating to Strada’s GraphicCollection 634
    4. 13.4 The Contents of Strada’s Collection of Prints and Drawings 641
    5. 13.5 Later Fate of Strada’s Prints and Drawings 647
    6. 13.6 Drawings Preserved in a Context Linking Them withStrada 649
    7. 13.7 Strada’s Commissions of Visual Documentation: Antiquity 673
    8. 13.8 Strada’s Commissions of Visual Documentation: Contemporary Architecture and Decoration 692
    9. 13.9 Images as a Source of Knowledge 711
    10. 13.10 Conclusion 717
  4. 14 ‘Ex Musaeo et Impensis Jacobi Stradae, S.C.M. Antiquarius, CivisRomani’: Strada’s Frustrated Ambitions as a Publisher 719
    1. 14.1 Is There Life beyond the Court? 719
    2. 14.2 Strada’s Family 719
    3. 14.3 Ottavio Strada’s Role 725
    4. 14.4 The Publishing Project: Strada Ambitions as a Publisher 728
    5. 14.5 The Musaeum as an Editorial Office? 739
    6. 14.6 Financing the Programme 752
    7. 14.7 The Index Sive Catalogus 760
    8. 14.8 Strada’s Approach of Christophe Plantin 775
    9. 14.9 The Rupture with Ottavio 781
    10. 14.10 Strada’s Testamentary Disposition 783
    11. 14.11 Conclusion: The Aftermath 786
  5. 15 Le Cose dell’antichità: Strada as a Student of Antiquity 799
    1. 15.1 Profession: Antiquarius 799
    2. 15.2 Strada’s Qualities as an Antiquary 807
    3. 15.3 Strada’s Method 813
    4. 15.4 Strada’s Aims 822
  6. 16 Strada & Co.: By Appointment to His Majesty the Emperor 830
    1. 16.1 Strada as an Imperial Antiquary and Architect 830
    2. 16.2 Strada’s Role as an Agent 836
    3. 16.3 Strada as an Independent Agent 840
    4. 16.4 ‘Ex Musaeo Iacobi de Strada’: Study, Studio, Workshop, Office, Showroom 843
    5. 16.5 Strada’s Influence: An Agent of Change 849
    6. 16.6 Conclusion: Strada’s Personality 863
    7. 16.7 Epilogue: Back to the Portrait 868
  7. Appendices 877
    1. A Some Unpublished Letters 877
    2. B Strada’s Will 894
    3. C Strada’s Musaeum: Pleasant paintings 900
    4. D Strada’s Musaeum: The Index Sive Catalogus 902
  8. Chronological List of Sources 915
  9. Bibliography 932
  10. List of Illustrations 986
  11. Index 1038
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