. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fig. 13.—^Jacobi's de Strada (1505-1588), Italian amiquarian, in a painting by Titian (photo courtesy Kunsthistorischcs Museum, Vienna). the Saxon Princes in Dresden (which were in\cntoricd by Tobias Rciilcl in 1587) and those of the Dukes of Gottorp in Kassel. In Brandenburs;, accordina; to irnditioii, thi' Prince Elector Joachim II (1535-1 .S71) established tiic Berlin numismatic cabinet, which was later enlarged con- siderabK- under IVederick the ;''' It is possible that such cultural [ireoccitpation at Joachim's court was slit
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fig. 13.—^Jacobi's de Strada (1505-1588), Italian amiquarian, in a painting by Titian (photo courtesy Kunsthistorischcs Museum, Vienna). the Saxon Princes in Dresden (which were in\cntoricd by Tobias Rciilcl in 1587) and those of the Dukes of Gottorp in Kassel. In Brandenburs;, accordina; to irnditioii, thi' Prince Elector Joachim II (1535-1 .S71) established tiic Berlin numismatic cabinet, which was later enlarged con- siderabK- under IVederick the ;''' It is possible that such cultural [ireoccitpation at Joachim's court was slitiuilated by Clount Rochus Gucrini, an archi- tect who came from Florence via Paris. In Italy, especially in Rome and Florence, coin collections were to be found in the palaces of the nobilits: the Farneses, the Barberinis, the Massimis, and the Ottobonis. Equally famous were the collec- tions asseml)led by nephews of the popes: Antonio Conduhuerio, C^ardinal of St. Mark's; .Messandro •>« Friedlaender and .Sallet, Das konigliche Miinzkabinet, pp. 12-18; Menadier, Die Sckaiisamrnlung, p. 1. Cardinal Farnese: and Filippo Cardinal Buoncom- pagni.'" The well-known scholar and maecenas Fulvio Orsini (1529-1600), at his death, left 70 £?old, 1,900 siher, and over 500 bronze coins, the majority of which he bequeathed to Odoardo Cardinal Farnese. Pope Urban VII in 1628 made a gift of 600 silver coins to his nephew Francesco Cardinal Barberini. The beginnings of the numismatic collection of the Vatican can also he traced to this period—about 1555—during the Pontificate of Marcellus II.'''* In Spain, through Philip II (1556-1598), a noted art lover, many collections were brought to the Escorial,''^ among them the coins of Antonio Agustin, Bishop of Lerida and Archbishop of Tarragona, con- sidered by many as the father of Spanish numis- ;'' His fame was based on his work Didlogos de mfdailas, inscripciones y otras antigiiedades, published by Felipe Mey in Tarr
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