Tuesday, 8 July 2025

[Baroque & Rococo – Austria][7th May 1991]

[Redbook9:296][19910507:0915x][Baroque & Rococo – Austria][7th May 1991]


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‘Painting in Austria flourished, & Franz Anton Maulbertsch must be counted the greatest painter of the 18th century in central Europe. The vast majority of his brilliant fresco cycles are* relatively inaccessible in Bohemia, Moravia & northern Hungary. But the mystical intensity of his religious scenes & the joyous abandon of his secular subjects form a triumphant closing chapter to the 18th-century art of central Europe. His last frescoes at Strahov, Prague (1791[ce]), reveal, nevertheless, the impact of Neo-classicism that descended in the last decades on all Austrian painters, including Troger's pupil Martin Knoller.

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** ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 25:] 358



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