학술논문
Austria, Federal Republic of
Document Type
Reference Entry
Author
Krause, Walter, author; Schwarz, Mario, author; Vancsa, Eckart, author; Hannesschläger, Ingonda, author; Podbrecky, Inge, author; Boeckl, Matthias, author; Biedermann, Gottfried, author; Stadlober, Margit, author; Schultes, Lothar, author; König, Peter, author; Pötzl-Malíková, Maria, author; Huber, Wolfgang, author; Wonisch-Langenfelder, Renate, author; Ottillinger, Eva B., author; Ramsauer, Gabriele, author; Wild, Barbara, author; Snowman, A. Kenneth, author; Heinz, Dora, author; Volker, Angela, author; Auer, Alfred, author; Seber, Oskar, author; Fraunlob, Sieglinde, author; Lechner, Gregor M., author
Source
Oxford Art Online, 2003, ill.
Subject
Language
English
Abstract
[Österreich] Central European country, bordered by Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland. It is divided into nine provinces: Styria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Vorarlberg, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna, Burgenland, and Carinthia. The country is landlocked and is characterized geographically by its mountainous landscape. Its population is concentrated mainly in the river valleys, especially along the River Danube and its surrounding plains, with the most important centres developing at the junctions of major north–south routes with those running from east to west, for example at Salzburg, Innsbruck, Linz, Graz, and the capital, Vienna (see fig.). There is evidence of human activity from Paleolithic and Neolithic times (see Prehistoric Europe, §II) and of Celtic settlements at Dürrnberg, Salzburg and Hallstatt in the last centuries bc (see also Prehistoric Europe, §V), before the area was colonized by the Romans in the first century ad. This article concentrates on art in Austria from the Early Christian period to the present....