What is Sandrart.net?
The project and its goals
Sandrart.net is a project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. While being located at the J.W. Goethe Universität in Frankfurt / Germany and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence (Max-Planck-Institut) / Italy, it is carried out in cooperation with a number of institutions in Germany, Italy and France.
The project’s main goal is an annotated, web-based edition of Joachim von Sandrart’s “Teutscher Academie der Edlen Bau, Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste” (1675–80), one of the most important source texts of the early modern period.
This opulent, lavishly decorated work will not only be provided as a digital facsimile, but also as searchable text. Moreover, users will be able to easily query the text for persons, places and works of art mentioned, due to added metadata.
Having lived and worked in a number of places throughout Europe, Sandrart’s biographical background makes his writings (with first-hand narrations on art, artists and art collections) a work of European dimension. Parts of the text have already been translated into Italian and French. These translations will be made available on the web in addition or as an alternative to the German text.
Furthermore, the text will be supplemented with images of the works of art Sandrart describes: he presents his own works and those created by artists he admires or his fellow artists as ideals of the art of his time.
The project started on April 1, 2007. A first, publicly accessible version was released in july 2008: http://ta.sandrart.net