Bohemian baroque
The Bohemian Baroque is a movement in the history of culture and art that spread to the area of today's Czech Republic in the late 17th and early 18th centuries and, above all, includes a large number of church buildings and aristocratic palaces. Famous representatives of the Bohemian Baroque were u. a. Christoph Dientzenhofer and his more famous son Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer , Johann Blasius Santini-Aichl (also: Giovanni Santini), Johann Michael Ludwig Rohrer , Franz Maximilian Kaňka and Matthias Bernhard Braun .
Historical background
After the famous battle on the White Mountain , in which the Bohemian army was defeated by the imperial troops on November 8, 1620, Bohemia came under Habsburg rule again and was annexed to Austria for almost 300 years. As kings of Bohemia , the Habsburgs used their newly gained power to implement the Counter-Reformation and the associated re-Catholicization of Bohemia. With the help of the Jesuit order and an absolutist style of government, the Habsburg emperors in Bohemia managed to implement the Counter Reformation as comprehensively and successfully as in hardly any other region in Europe.