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751Ambitions as a Publisher Whatever may have been the reason, it is clear that when Strada in August prepared to send Ottavio to Frankfurt, it was explicitly to occupy himself with the printing project.65 As we have seen, Ottavio’s report to his father of the end of the year bears this out: it gives a good impression of the many differ- ent negotiations the complexity of his father’s ambitions involved him in. The letter, which appears to reflect point by point his father’s lost letter, indicates that Ottavio was fully in his father’s confidence, had discussed the many as- pects of the various projects with him in detail, and had contributed his own ideas and opinions. It appears that, whereas his father supplied the intellectual concept and the idealistic drive for the project, Ottavio contributed a more level-headed, more business-like and realistic approach, and had an open eye for the potential market. Thus he was well aware of competing projects, advis- ing against reprinting the Epitome thesauri antiquitatum in a German edition because that had already been done by others, but also noting that the edition of Caesar’s Commentaries that Andrea Palladio was preparing posed no threat, because that would be of a different character than the edition planned by Strada, with different images, and he believed their own book would be more beautiful than Palladio’s and could be offered at a lower price.66 Apart from books soon to be published—Serlio’s Settimo Libro and the Caesar edition— and other works mentioned in the copyright privilege, another two projects are discussed, a book on the history of the Popes, which was to be illustrated by coats of arms and was probably intended as a pendant to the Lives of the Emperors mentioned in the copyright privilege. Strada had asked the help of Giovanni Battista Fonteo, an Italian humanist active at the Imperial court, to complete the histories and to obtain drawings of the coats of arms.67 Another interesting project mentioned is an illustrated Bible, the images for which were to be designed by one ‘Jan Baptista’, probably Strada’s Man- tuan associate Giovanni Battista Scultori, though Ottavio cautioned his father Gonzaga of Mantua to protect him from interference by the Holy Office. It is not clear whether this was actually given, and Strada appears in fact to have abandoned a planned trip to his hometown [Docs. 1568-01-29; 1568-01-30; and 1568-10-11]. Though Strada did re- quest a passport and Imperial letters of recommendation to Venice in 1574, it is not clear whether he actually travelled there. 65 Strada asked Maximilian for a passport for Ottavio for Frankfort, and that he was (nomi- nally?) appointed a servant of the Emperor; the passport was conceded, the appointment apparently not [Docs. 1574-08-00; 1574-08-09]. 66 Doc. 1574-12-05, transcribed in Appendix A. 67 Ibidem; Giovanni Battista Fonteo is chiefly known because he wrote the cartels for Impe- rial jousts designed by Arcimboldo and some texts explaining Arcimboldo’s composite portraits; but he also wrote a history of the Cesi family of Bologna; see Kaufmann 1978(a), p. 276.
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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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