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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.
Price: $402.00
Pages: 1070
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
07 March 2019
ISBN: 9789004355262
Format: Hardcover
“A beautiful book that will certainly become the definitive biography of this intriguing Italian.”
Howard Louthan, University of Minnesota. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 626–628.
“Jansen has successfully demonstrated Strada’s importance in the cultural transfer from Italy to the North. In the process he has assigned him a unique role as an “agent of change” in the cultural history of the second half of the 16th century.”
Sylvia Ferino, Director Emerita of Paintings at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. In: The Art Newspaper, 13 July 2020.
A “phenomenal performance” […]. “The immense effort with which Jansen deals with many questions makes the book a work worth returning to repeatedly […]. The book under review should not be missing from the library of any scholar interested in 16th-century Central European cultural history.”
Sylva Dobalová & Petr Uličný, Institute of Art History Czech Academy of Sciences. In: Umění/Art: Journal of the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vol. 69, No. 1 (2021), pp. 112–116.
“Das Buch Dirk Jacob Jansens über die schöpferischen Aktivitäten des Architekten und Antiquars Jacopo Strada stellt durch seine Auffassung, heuristische Reichweite und die Erkenntnisse einen grundlegenden wissenschaftlichen Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte Zentraleuropas im dritten Viertel des 16. Jahrhunderts dar.“
Václav Bůžek, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. In: Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Vol. 128, No. 2 (2020), pp. 455–457.
Howard Louthan, University of Minnesota. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 626–628.
“Jansen has successfully demonstrated Strada’s importance in the cultural transfer from Italy to the North. In the process he has assigned him a unique role as an “agent of change” in the cultural history of the second half of the 16th century.”
Sylvia Ferino, Director Emerita of Paintings at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. In: The Art Newspaper, 13 July 2020.
A “phenomenal performance” […]. “The immense effort with which Jansen deals with many questions makes the book a work worth returning to repeatedly […]. The book under review should not be missing from the library of any scholar interested in 16th-century Central European cultural history.”
Sylva Dobalová & Petr Uličný, Institute of Art History Czech Academy of Sciences. In: Umění/Art: Journal of the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vol. 69, No. 1 (2021), pp. 112–116.
“Das Buch Dirk Jacob Jansens über die schöpferischen Aktivitäten des Architekten und Antiquars Jacopo Strada stellt durch seine Auffassung, heuristische Reichweite und die Erkenntnisse einen grundlegenden wissenschaftlichen Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte Zentraleuropas im dritten Viertel des 16. Jahrhunderts dar.“
Václav Bůžek, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. In: Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Vol. 128, No. 2 (2020), pp. 455–457.
Dirk Jacob Jansen, Ph.D. (Leiden 2015), Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt, has been an academic librarian and curator. His published research focuses on sixteenth-century architecture, antiquarianism and collecting in courtly contexts, and includes several articles on the life and career of Jacopo Strada.