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725Ambitions
as a Publisher
14.3 Ottavio Strada’s Role
Stopio’s letters to Fugger afford other occasional vignettes of Ottavio’s role: for
instance when in the late summer of 1567 Strada had to flee Mantua in fear
of the Inquisition, Ottavio was to remain in the lodgings they had rented to
oversee the execution of Strada’s commissions, among which the manufacture
of an ebony chest. At seventeen Ottavio in his innocence was no match for
the dishonest joiner who made it, who sent him out of the house on some
errand, and then broke open Strada’s treasure chest and decamped with the
considerable sum of three hundred scudi.16 In later life Ottavio would be regu-
larly employed as an agent in his father’s business affairs, concluding deals,
collecting payments, and supervising commissions. Thus in March 1574 Strada
told Hans Jakob Fugger that he intended to send Ottavio to Venice ‘for some
business affairs of mine’, offering to have him act on Fugger’s behalf in the ac-
quisition of some collections of antiquities, and from a letter to Jacopo Dani of
the same year it transpires that Ottavio had recently travelled to the Southern
Netherlands, from which he had brought numismatic materials—doubtless
among other things.17 When a year earlier Ottavio had visited Augsburg, he
had shown Hans Fugger, Hans Jakob’s cousin, several books of drawings. One
of these particularly interested Fugger, a volume containing only ‘Citata oder
16 BHStA, Kurbayern, Äusseres Archiv 4852, fol. 69, Stopio to Fugger, Venice 5 October 1567: ‘Il
Strada era per comprare qui assai medaglie da uno che me le ha gia offerte, ma li furono
robbati da 300 [scu]di in Mantua, da uno che li faceva una cassetta d’Ebano in casa, es-
sendo esso Strada partito per Verona, per paura della Inquisitione<…>per il che se ne
ando subito via, per Verona, lasciando il suo puto in Mantua, con collui che fece la cas-
setta, il quale mando poi fuori il figlio in un servizio, et in quel mezzo ruppe la serratura
ad una cassetta ove erano li danari, et scampo via, et il puto ando poi con quello haveva
trovato avanzare in casa a trovare il padre a Verona, et non fidandosi ne anche ivi venne
poi di longo a Ven[eti]a, over per rispetto de l’Imp[erato]re non li haveriano lasciato dare
molestia<…>’.
17 Strada to Hans Jakob Fugger (Doc. 1574-03-01): ‘a Dio piacendo voglio mandar Ottavio mio
figliolo a Vinetia per alcuni mei negotij, e se pole servire la Signoria Vostra in qualche cosa
lo farà voluntieri. Anche se Sua Excellenza vole che faccia praticha con li Vendramini
di quel suo studio delle antiquità , o vero con quello del Cavaliero Mozenigo, qual sia il più
bello che ora in Vinetia si trovi, del quale intendo se ne vole desfare, io farò che ne cavarÃ
li inventarij, e si mandaranno a Sua Excellenza, si che Vostra Signoria me potrà avisar del
tutto quello vorà che si faccia.’; Strada to Jacopo Dani (Doc. 1574-07-11): ‘Del favore che Vos-
tra Signoria mi dice che Sua Altezza mi farra per la mia Series, ritrovandosene ne molte
doppie, la ringratio con tutto il cuore, et gliene basio le mani; ma creddo che poche or mai
me ne manchi, et poche se ne truovi che io non l’habbi; perchè in tanti anni ch’io vi sonno
a torno, et in tante parti dove son stato, et doppo Ottavio mio figliuolo che ultimamente
è stato in Fiandra, creddo che habbiamo ragunato tutto quello che si truova’.
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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