Jacopo Strada's Mantuan Drawings of 1567–1568

Abstract

Among the rich holdings of the Kupferstichkabinett of the Kunstmuseum in Dusseldorf1 are some large cardboard-mounted architectural drawings in black, brown, or black and brown ink with grey wash occasionally reinforced by hatching.2 These drawings are referred to in an entry in the handwritten inventory of the collection in Dusseldorf,3 written when Wilhelm Lambert Krahe (1712–1790)4 was the director of the gallery, which lists more than forty, attributing them to Pietro Santi Bartoli: “Oeuvres d'Architecture, Sculpture et Peinture du Palais nomme T. Maison de Plaisance du Duc de Mantoue le tout de Giulio Romano depinees a la plume e lavees a l'encre de la Chine par le fameux Pietro Santi Bartoli pour l'executer en Gravure.”