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VISUAL ARTS
20 BC Roman
With the building of the fortress of Carnuntum in Lower Austria, the Romans use decorative mosa-
ics, some of which survive in Carnuntum's open-air museum.
8th-12th Century Romanesque
Salzburg becomes the centre for frescoes, many of which have Byzantine influences.
13th Century Early Gothic
A transition from Romanesque to Gothic occurs, exemplified by frescoes today found in the former
cathedral of Gurk.
14th Century High Gothic
Ribbed Gothic interiors and high windows leave little space for frescoes but create new opportunit-
ies for glass painting.
16th Century Danube School
In the transition from late Gothic to the Renaissance, a Danube School of landscape painting arises
from the early 16th century, later absorbed into the Renaissance.
1680-1740 High & Late Baroque
Fresco painting reaches dizzying heights of achievement in the age of Johann Michael Rottmayr,
Paul Troger and Daniel Gran.
Early 19th Century Biedermeier
Amid a wave of neoclassical and revivalist painting, the Biedermeier painter Ferdinand Georg Wald-
müller becomes Austria's best-known painter of the era.
1900 Art Nouveau
Vienna becomes the world's art nouveau capital, with the likes of Gustav Klimt, Hans Makart and
Kolo Moser working in the city.
1910-20 Expressionism
Seeking a new language of art, expressionists Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka move to the fore-
front of Austrian painting.
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