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The term baroque originals from the Portuguese and stands for a crooked spherical pearl. People in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries regarded the new style as unsightly and monstrous and therefore the style got his deprecatory name.
One of the most important tools of baroque painting was the application of lightening-effects. Carravagio was the one who used lightening-effects for the first time accentuating the main figures of his paintings. Two famous painters from Flandern copied Carravagios style and refined the way of painting. Peter Paul Rubens owned a painting-school and so he influenced many other painters, for instance Anton Van Dyck. An also remarkable painter is Rembrandt. Although he accomplished painting he died impoverished. Some of the most important Austrian Baroque painter were: Michael Rottmayer, Daniel Gran, Paul Troger, Franz Anton Maulbertsch and Franz Anton Zeiller.
The Baroque architecture can be recognised by following features: horizontal dispersed facades, gigantic cupolas and the buildings included landscape. The plastic art was a part of architecture. It was very similar to the Hellenism because it was effusived and animated. Fischer von Erlach built the Karl´s church, the Nationallibary and Castle Schönbrunn. Hildebrandt planed Castle Mirabell, Stift Göttweig and the famous Viennese Castle Belvedere. Prantauer built Stift Melk.
In the Außerfern the Baroque art could rather lately gain acceptance but therefor it was kept longer then in other parts of Austria and Europe. Since other European artists had gone to another new style the Außerferner painters preserved to the Baroque painting-tradition. The Zeillerschule once founded by Paul Zeiller tried to teach Baroque traditions until the middle of the 19th century. That’s how a testimony sprang up still after „Wiener Congress“, a painting-art which was vanished nearly everywhere else.