“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.