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Chapter ��604 Though no mention is made in Stopio’s correspondence of Strada’s contacts with Jacopo Tintoretto, these are testified by the portrait which this master made of Ottavio, Strada’s second son. Ottavio shared the interests of his father, and had accompanied him to Venice as his assistant, as part of his profes- sional training. The portrait, which is now in the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam, shows the eighteen-year old Ottavio in the fashionable attitude of a young, melancholic virtuoso of noble birth. It was obviously intended as a pendant for Titian’s more famous portrait of his father [Figs. 0.1 and 12.22 and 0.2 and 12.24].65 Strada’s connection with the Robusti family is attested moreover by the statement in Raffaele Borghini’s Il Riposo of 1584 that Jacopo’s talented daughter Marietta had also painted a portrait of Jacopo Strada, which, together with her own self-portrait, had been acquired by Maximilian ii. As ‘rare things’ the Emperor kept both of these in his own chamber, and he made every effort to have Marietta come to his court.66 fa le queste sue cose<…>’; ibid., fol. 66: Stopio to Fugger, 9 September 1567, speaking of a Paris in Parian marble that Stopio wished to acquire on behalf of Duke Albrecht: ‘un amico che ha veduto il Cupido del Strada che li costa scudi 75, dice che questo Paris vale per il dopio, si come è anche più grande di un bon palmo che non è quel suo Cupido’ (and the Paris was as large as ‘un putto de 7 o 9 anni’). The restoration of the female statue is mentioned in Strada’s account (BHStA-LA 4852, fols. 16–20; Stockbauer 1874, p. 32). Maxi- milian’s request for information (Linz 18 December 1568) printed in JdKS 13, Reg. 8807, and discussed in Lietzmann 1987, pp. 163; Podewils 1992, pp. 47–48. 65 Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv. nr. SK-A-3902; cf. most recently Duncan Bull’s entry in the catalogue of the Louvre exhibition Titien, Tintoret, Véronèse: Rivalités à Venise (Bull 2009<a>). The dimensions of the painting (1,28 x 1,01 m.) are quite close to Titian’s portrait of Jacopo Strada (1,25 x 0,95 m.). 66 Borghini 1584, p. 558: ‘[Marietta Tintoretta] dipigne benissimo, et ha fatto molte bell’opere, e fra l’altre il ritratto di Iacopo Strada Antiquario dell’Imperador Massimiliano secondo, et Figures ��.��–��.�4 The painting recently attributed to Marietta Tintoretto, as Portrait of Jacopo Strada and self-portrait, dressed as a boy (Dresden, Gemäldegalerie, centre), compared to Titian’s portrait of Jacopo (Vienna, left) and Tintoretto’s portrait of Ottavio Strada (Amsterdam, right).