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665Visual Documentation related to the reliefs in the coffers of the barrel-vault in the Camera degli Stuc- chi of the Palazzo del Te [fols. 1–26; Figs. 13.53–13.58]. Since a number of these drawings differ in detail from the stuccoes as executed, Strada’s copies were certainly derived from Giulio’s original modelli, or based on workshop copies of these that were in Strada’s possession.62 The former option is more likely: from the Index sive catalogus we know that Strada also owned—and intended to publish—the complete set of Giulio’s designs for the double frieze, repre- senting Caesar’s battle-order, in this same room: A picture of the order in which Caesar the dictator was wont to set out with his legions, infantry and cavalry as well as his auxiliary troops; drawn after the pictures made by Giulio Romano in the Palazzo del Te outside Mantua: a most perfect and wonderful thing, and worth seeing; the origi- nals of which I bought from Raphael, Giulio’s son. This entry helps solve the problem of the iconography of the frieze in the Cam- era degli Stucchi, and it is of some significance that an inscription explaining 62 The following drawings represent inventions used in the ceiling of the Camera degli Stuc- chi: fols. 1,2,3,6,7,9, 10, 16, 17, 21, 23, 24 and 26. In view of the fact that many of these in- ventions were copied already in Giulio’s own workshop, and various versions have been preserved of many of them, an attempt to identify the individual sheets actually in Stra- da’s possession—if at all feasible—would involve detailed material and provenance re- search that far transcends the limits of this study; the items illustrated here serve merely as examples. Figure 13.52 Giulio Romano, design for a section of the double frieze in the Camera degli Stucchi, Paris, Louvre. Figure 13.51 Francesco Primaticcio, after Giulio Romano, Detail of the battle order of Caesar, double frieze in the Camera degli Stucchi, Palazzo del Te, Mantua.