Jacopo Strada
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Jacopo Strada was an Italian polymath courtier, painter, architect, goldsmith, inventor of machines, numismatist, linguist, collector, and art dealer. His portrait by Titian has kept his image familia
Portrait of Jacopo Strada by Titian, 1567 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
The Antiquarium (begun 1568—71) in the Munich Residenz
Portrait of Ottavio Strada receiving a cornucopia with coins from Fortuna, an allusion to his study of ancient coins - ascribed to Marietta Robusti (Tintoretto's daughter)
Albert V of Bavaria
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Albert V was Duke of Bavaria from 1550 until his death. He was born in Munich to William IV and Maria Jacobäa of Baden.
Jacopo Strada
…as an official artist and architect to three successive Habsburg Holy Roman emperors, Ferdinand I, Maximilian II and Rudolph II. He also worked for Albert V, Duke of Bavaria (Albrecht), for whom he conceived the Antiquarium to house the antiquities at the Munich Residenz; the Roman sculptures that he assembled for the Duke…
Portrait by Hans Mielich, 1545
Duke Albert V of Bavaria and his consort Anna of Austria playing chess, portrait by Hans Mielich (1552)