Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at The Imperial Court (2 Vols.)

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Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at The Imperial Court (2 Vols.) is written by Dirk Jacob Jansen and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004359494 (ISBN 10) and 9789004359499 (ISBN 13).

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 and scholarly advisor of powerful patrons such as Hans Jakob Fugger, the Duke of Bavaria and the Emperors Ferdinand I and Maximilian II — are examined in detail, and studied within the context of the cosmopolitan learned and courtly environments in which he moved. These volumes offer a substantial reassessment of Strada’s importance as an agent of change, transmitting the ideas and artistic language of the Italian Renaissance to the North.