Portrait of Jacopo Strada

Portrait of Jacopo Strada

Artist	Titian
Year	1567–1568
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	125 cm × 95 cm (49 in × 37 in)
Location	Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Portrait of Jacopo Strada is a 1567-68 portrait of the court librarian Jacopo Strada by Titian, now held in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.^[1]

Strada was not only an official book keeper, but also had many other qualities, and this portrait portrays him in his study surrounded by objects displaying his knowledge. He is shown wearing a gold chain, probably awarded him the previous year 1566 when he was appointed Antiquarius Caesareus by his employer Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor.

The inscription upper right reads JACOBVUS DE STRADA CIVIS ROMANVS CAESS. ANTIQVARIVS ET COM. BELIC. AN: AETAT: LI: et C.M.D.L. XVI (Jacopo de Strada, citizen of Rome, imperial Antiquary and Minister, aged 51 in the year 1566). The painting is signed top left: "TITIANVS F (ECIT)". The letter on the table additionally contains the words Titian Vecellio Venezia.

A century later this painting was documented in David Teniers the Younger's catalog Theatrum Pictorium of the art collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in 1659^[2] and again in 1673,^[3] but the portrait had already enjoyed notoriety in Teniers' portrayals of the Archduke's art collection:

1673 engraving from Teniers' catalog, by Lucas Vorsterman II
1640
Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (Brussels), 1651
Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels (Vienna), 1651
1651

References[]

^ GG_81 Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine in the museum collection
^ 266224 record in the RKD
^ 92 in Theatrum Pictorium, 1673

Urbanissime Strada: Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court, by Jansen, Dirk Jacob, 2015

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Self portraits	Self-Portrait (1546–47) Self-Portrait (c. 1560)
Secular	Pastoral Concert (c. 1509 – also attributed to Giorgione) Dresden Venus (with Giorgione, c. 1510) Miracle of the Jealous Husband (1511) The Three Ages of Man (c. 1512–1514) Sacred and Profane Love (c. 1514) The Feast of the Gods (1514) Lucretia and her Husband (1515) The Bravo (c. 1515) Flora (c. 1515) Salome (c. 1515) Vanity (c. 1515) Violante (c. 1515) Woman with a Mirror (c. 1515) The Worship of Venus (1518–19) Venus Anadyomene (c. 1520) Bacchus and Ariadne (1520–1523) The Bacchanal of the Andrians (1523–1526) Eleven Caesars (1536-1540) Venus of Urbino (1538) Alfonso d'Avalos Addressing his Troops (1540) Venus and Musician (1540s on, series) The Punishment of Tythus (1549) Danaë (series) (1543–1565) Venus and Adonis (several versions) Pardo Venus (1551) Venus with a Mirror (1555) Perseus and Andromeda (1554-1556) Diana and Actaeon (1556–1559) Diana and Callisto (1556–1559) The Death of Actaeon (c. 1559–1575) The Rape of Europa (c. 1560–1562) Venus Blindfolding Cupid (c. 1565) Allegory of Prudence (c. 1565–1570) Tarquin and Lucretia (comp. 1571) Flaying of Marsyas (1570–1576)
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Related	Orazio Vecellio (son) Francesco Vecellio (brother)

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