accorded noble status. He demolished and rebuilt his dwelling, which housed his library of 3,000 volumes and his Kunstkammer. There he lived until his death, the honoured guest of the emperors. His Palais Strada stood as an eminent example of Late Renaissance architecture in the Simmering district of Vienna until it was demolished in 1875 in the rebuilding of the Wiener Burgtheater. In 1577 he published in Frankfurt-am-Main Sebastiano Serlio's seventh book of architecture, with its original Italian text, which exists in manuscript on parchment, and Strada's Latin translation. In the introduction Strada reported that he had received the manuscript from Serlio himself in Lyon in 1550. He died in Prague and is buried in the Church of St. Nicholas in the Malá Strana. His son, Ottavio Strada (1550–1607), his assistant at the Hofburg, followed in his father's footsteps in the service of the Imperial court as expert in works of art. Ottavio's daughter Katharina was a favourite of Emperor Rudolph II, and bore him six children. Bibliography Jansen, Dirk Jacob. Urbanissime Strada : Jacopo Strada and cultural patronage at the Imperial Court. Maastricht, 2015. Doctoral thesis. Lawrence, Sarah. Jacopo Strada (1510 – 1588). Mannerist Splendor: Extravagant Designs for a Royal Table. San Francisco: Serge Sorokko Gallery, 2007. Panofsky, Erwin. Problems in Titian, Mostly Iconographic. New York University Press, 1969. Notes References External links 1507 births 1588 deaths Architects from Mantua Italian art dealers Italian goldsmiths 16th-century Italian architects Italian Renaissance architects 16th-century German architects Writers from Mantua