L' Academia Todesca della architectura, scultura & pittura oder Teutsche Academie der edlen Bau-, Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste: ... Der Edlen Mahler-Kunst rechten Grund, Eigenschafften und Geheimnisse... erörtert
Joachim von Sandrart's 1679 German treatise on architecture, sculpture and painting, issued in Nuremberg for artists and students of the arts, held by Heidelberg University Library. Its plates are engraved pages of profile portrait medallions of classical rulers, philosophers and figures, set in ovals on framed sheets with printed captions beneath each head. A designer can take from them a dense system of symmetrical oval framing, consistent profile orientation and restrained tonal engraving for cameo-style emblems and period ornament.
