At a glance:
“Sandrart.net in a Nutshell”

On this website, you can find the online edition of the “Teutschen Academie” and the “Iconologia Deorum”, which were written by Joachim von Sandrart and published between 1675 and 1680. This online edition has been developed in the course of the project “Sandrart.net”.

In essence, there is little difference between this edition and a “conventional” edition in book format: You can access the original text with no changes, apart from some prudent editorial interventions, either by scrolling through the pages or using the text structure to enter at a specific point. You can also display the copper engravings that were part of the original work.
Of course, you can cite this edition in a manner comparable to that used for print literature; each page has a permanent and unique address (“PURL”) that makes precise citations easier.

The text is not simply available as a facsimile, but has been transcribed in full, therefore you can use a search function to quickly find passages in the text.
However, a ‘normal’ text search is an inadequate tool if, as in the case of the “Teutschen Academie”, the search results are incomplete due to variations in spelling or ambiguous and varying names. Therefore, this online edition pursues a second approach alongside the conventional full-text search: All people and places mentioned in the text are recorded in databases. Each entry has been linked to all occurrences of the person or place in the text.
As soon as you search in the text, a parallel search is performed automatically in these two databases. If you are searching for a person or a place, you should definitely check any database hits that appear: These will take you directly to all relevant passages in the text, including those that you probably would not find if you used only the full-text search.

Something similar was done for works of art in the text, which are linked to entries in a further database.

The entries in the databases referred to above are not only linked to the text, but the data records often reference one another as well, therefore you will encounter sometimes far-reaching networks of cross-references which facilitate and enrich your work with the edition.

When using the edition, please bear in mind that our work is still in full progress. In contrast to a printed version, the Internet allows us to continuously extend the information provided, something that we are making ample use of. For example, around 1,250 entries in the people’s database are not yet publicly accessible and the features, such as the search and the means of presentation, will be extended and improved over time. Nevertheless, we are convinced that the edition already provides considerable benefit.

Further information

… on Joachim von Sandrart (in German)
… on the »Teutsche Academie« (in German)
… on the project
… on the technique used for searching people and places
… on the database of people
… on the database of places
… on the database of works of art
… on citiation and PURLs (in German)