⚠The image provided is a mirror-image (laterally reversed) scan of a title page, likely resulting from heavy ink show-through from the recto side as seen from the verso. The transcription below has been restored to its intended reading order.

JOACHIM VON SANDRART OF STOCKAU,

Counselor to His Sacred Roman Imperial Majesty,

and Count Palatine, Member of the Florentine & Venetian Academies,

as well as the Leopoldine-Imperial Academy of Researchers of Nature,

original: "Leopoldino-Cæsareæ Naturæ Curiosorum"; founded in 1652, this is the oldest continuously existing academy of sciences in the world.

and the German Society, in which he is called: The Well-Helper, Member.

original: "Teutonicæ, in quâ dicitur: Der Wohl-Helfende"; Sandrart was a member of the Fruitbearing Society, the first German literary academy, where each member received a symbolic nickname.

ACADEMY

OF THE MOST NOBLE

ART OF PAINTING.

Concerning the true and genuine properties of the same, its Precepts,
secrets and mysteries; and then of its progress from the very invention and growth of the Art,
through the successes of various centuries up to these times; as well as the
Lives, Works, and Authorities of all those throughout Europe, and indeed the rest of the World,
both ancient and modern, who have become famous in the distinguished Arts, which have been expressed to the life
on copper plates—desired by everyone—and collected with the greatest study and labor:

To which is added

A Fundamental Instruction,

For the benefit of those who are less skilled in this Art, so that they may establish certain
rules for themselves to reach the highest peak in it.

Likewise a supplement original: "Auctarium"; a formal term for an added collection or appendix. of the Lives, Characters, Deeds, and Deaths of the most celebrated
Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, as well as Italians,
French, Belgians, Germans, etc., both of former times and those
now flourishing; including whatever is worthy of singular praise,
sought out from everywhere with great labor and study, collected, and precisely arranged
according to the truth, without any envy or flattery.

TO THE MOST SERENE DUKE

AND

THE MOST EXCELLENT SENIOR

COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC AT NUREMBERG?

A portrait of Joachim von Sandrart, the author, visible as a mirrored show-through. He is depicted in an oval frame, wearing formal 17th-century robes and a long wig. A circular library stamp is visible in the lower right corner, also reversed.

NUREMBERG

Printed by Christian Sigismund Froberg, at the Author's Expense.

IN THE YEAR 1683.