Jacopo Strada and cultural patronage at the imperial court : : the antique as innovation / / by Dirk Jacob Jansen.

• VerfasserIn: Jansen, Dirk Jacob, 1953-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2019; 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Rulers & Elites 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court: Antiquity as Innovation , Dirk Jansen provides a survey of the life and career of the antiquary, architect, and courtier Jacopo Strada (Mantua 1515-Vienna 1588). His manifold activities — also as a publisher and as an agent and artistic...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Acknowledgments of Financial Support Received
• Abbreviations
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• The Image
• The Image—Or from Whom (Not?) to Buy a Second-Hand Car
• ‘A Puero Enutritum et iam Olim Exercitatum’: Education and Early Experience
• Early Years: Family Background, Education, Giulio Romano
• Travel: Rome, Landshut, Nuremberg—Strada’s Connection with Wenzel Jamnitzer
• In Hans Jakob Fuggers’s Service
• Antiquario Della Sacra Cesarea Maesta: Strada’s Tasks at Court
• ‘Ainem Paumaister bey unnsern Gebewen’: Jacopo Strada asan Imperial Architect
• Jacopo Strada as an Imperial Architect: Background
• Strada’s Role in Projects Initiated by Emperor Ferdinand i
• An Object Lesson: Strada’s House in Vienna
• The Munich Antiquarium
• The Neugebäude
• Other Patrons of Architecture
• The Musaeum
• The Musaeum: Strada’s Circle
• The Musaeum: Its Contents
• Books, Prints and Drawings: The Musaeum as a Centre of Visual Documentation
• ‘Ex Musaeo et Impensis Jacobi Stradae, S.C.M. Antiquarius, Civis Romani’: Strada’s Frustrated Ambitions as a Publisher
• The Antiquary and the Agent of Change
• Le Cose dell’Antichità: Strada as a Student of Antiquity
• Strada and Company: By Appointment to His Majesty the Emperor
• Back Matter
• Bibliography
• Index.