stradano

Updated: May 11, 2025

It was about the time of the death of Cosimo I , the founder of the Medicean factory, that a new and unfortunate influence came into the directorship of the designs. This was the appointment of Stradano or Johan van der Straaten, to give his Flemish name, as dominating artist.

Mrs. Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee - The Tapestry Book