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12.5.3 Contacts with Living Artists in Venice
Though Strada appears to have bought the batches of paintings discussed
above from one or more merchants, it is perfectly possible, even likely, that he
also acquired works of art directly from their makers. Strada’s contacts with
the artists living in Venice were very extensive, and they are much better docu-
mented than his contacts with the local dealers. In June 1567 Stopio reported
to Fugger that ‘il Strada non prattica qui con scultori, se non con orefici e de-
segnatori di stampe in rame, o miniatori, che è il suo mestiere’.61 Strada was
acquainted with many of these artists since his earlier visits to Venice: with
the goldsmiths because they were to some extent his colleagues, and also be-
cause their shops were the natural repositories of the smaller anticaglie, such
as coins and medals, cameos and intaglios, and small bronzes.62 His interest in
the book trade and in any type of material visually documenting a great variety
of subjects brought him into contact with the miniaturists and the engravers;
and he would employ the latter to execute the illustrations for his edition of
the Settimo Libro of Sebastiano Serlio’s architectural treatise, though the book
itself eventually was printed in Frankfurt.63
In asserting Strada’s lack of contacts with Venice’s sculptors Stopio deliber-
ately deluded Fugger, because he hoped to induce Fugger to employ a sculptor
of his acquaintance to execute the necessary restorations of the Duke’s newly
acquired antiquities. But he almost immediately contradicted himself when
he related to Fugger how Strada had declined an invitation to lunch with him
because he already had an appointment with Alessandro Vittoria that day.
Strada commissioned Vittoria to restore some of the Duke’s antiques, but he
also ordered an independent sculpture, representing Cupid, for which he paid
seventy-five ducats. When this arrived in Vienna he appears to have shown
it to the Emperor and communicated his high opinion of Vittoria’s qualities,
for about a year later, when Maximilian began planning the Neugebäude, he
asked Veit von Dornberg, his envoy in Venice, for further information about
the sculptor.64
61 BHStA-LA 4852, fols. 35–36
62 BHStA-LA 4852, fol. 157
63 On Strada’s activities as a publisher, see Ch. 14; Jansen 1989; Jansen 2004.
64 BHStA-LA 4852, fol. 42, Stopio to Fugger, 3 August 1567: ‘Circa il suo Cupido, quando che
sarà finito, sapera bene il tutto, et ne darò aviso a Vostra Signoria’; ibid., fol. 49: Stopio to
Fugger, 10 August 1567: ‘mi maraviglia molto che non le habbia inviati inanti, ma penso
che vorà aspettare il Cupido che si fa’; ibid., fol. 60: Stopio to Fugger, 24 August 1567: ‘Il
Cupido sara finito fra 15 dì, et sara conza la donna, alla quale ha fatto metter una testa et
un brazo<…>Io volevo che quella matina fusse venuto meco a desinare il Strada, ma mi
disse hiersera suo figliuolo<…>che’l va a desinare con Alessandro Vittorio scultore che
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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
- 11 The Musaeum: Strada’s Circle 547
- 11.1 Strada’s House 547
- 11.2 High-ranking Visitors: Strada’s Guest Book and Ottavio’s Stammbuch 548
- 11.3 ‘Urbanissime Strada’: Accessibility of and Hospitality in the Musaeum 554
- 11.4 Intellectual Associates 556
- 11.5 Strada’s Confessional Position 566
- 11.6 Contacts with Members of the Dynasty 570
- 12 The Musaeum: its Contents 576
- 12.1 Introduction 576
- 12.2 Strada’s own Descriptions of his Musaeum 577
- 12.3 Strada’s Acquisitions for Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria 580
- 12.4 Strada’s own Cabinet of Antiquities 592
- 12.5 Acquisitions of Other Materials in Venice 599
- 12.6 Commissions in Mantua 610
- 12.7 ‘Gemalte Lustigen Tiecher’: Contemporary Painting in Strada’s Musaeum 615
- 12.8 Conclusion 628
- 13 Books, Prints and Drawings: The Musaeum as a centre of visualdocumentation 629
- 13.1 Introduction 629
- 13.2 Strada’s Acquisition of Drawings 630
- 13.3 ‘Owls to Athens’: Some Documents Relating to Strada’s GraphicCollection 634
- 13.4 The Contents of Strada’s Collection of Prints and Drawings 641
- 13.5 Later Fate of Strada’s Prints and Drawings 647
- 13.6 Drawings Preserved in a Context Linking Them withStrada 649
- 13.7 Strada’s Commissions of Visual Documentation: Antiquity 673
- 13.8 Strada’s Commissions of Visual Documentation: Contemporary Architecture and Decoration 692
- 13.9 Images as a Source of Knowledge 711
- 13.10 Conclusion 717
- 14 ‘Ex Musaeo et Impensis Jacobi Stradae, S.C.M. Antiquarius, CivisRomani’: Strada’s Frustrated Ambitions as a Publisher 719
- 14.1 Is There Life beyond the Court? 719
- 14.2 Strada’s Family 719
- 14.3 Ottavio Strada’s Role 725
- 14.4 The Publishing Project: Strada Ambitions as a Publisher 728
- 14.5 The Musaeum as an Editorial Office? 739
- 14.6 Financing the Programme 752
- 14.7 The Index Sive Catalogus 760
- 14.8 Strada’s Approach of Christophe Plantin 775
- 14.9 The Rupture with Ottavio 781
- 14.10 Strada’s Testamentary Disposition 783
- 14.11 Conclusion: The Aftermath 786
- 15 Le Cose dell’antichità : Strada as a Student of Antiquity 799
- 16 Strada & Co.: By Appointment to His Majesty the Emperor 830
- 16.1 Strada as an Imperial Antiquary and Architect 830
- 16.2 Strada’s Role as an Agent 836
- 16.3 Strada as an Independent Agent 840
- 16.4 ‘Ex Musaeo Iacobi de Strada’: Study, Studio, Workshop, Office, Showroom 843
- 16.5 Strada’s Influence: An Agent of Change 849
- 16.6 Conclusion: Strada’s Personality 863
- 16.7 Epilogue: Back to the Portrait 868
- Appendices 877
- Chronological List of Sources 915
- Bibliography 932
- List of Illustrations 986
- Index 1038