The article analyses a monumental vault painting by noted artist Franz Anton Maulbertsch in the Philosophical Hall of the Strahov Library depicting 'The Spiritual Development of the Mankind' (1794). The painting shows a merger of two approaches: Maulbertsch's Baroque fresco techniques and drawing techniques of his student Martin Michl, who is to be counted among the artists of Neoclassicism.
The remodelling and decoration of the provost St. Hypolyte Church in Hradiště/Poltenberg near Znojmo marks the final phase of the Baroque era building activities of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star in Moravia. This unique artistic complex is dominated by a monumental wall painting by noted artist Franz Anton Maulbertsch and his collaborators (1776) depicting 'The Finding of the Holy Cross', an important iconographic theme in Austrian baroque piety (Fiducia in crucem Christi).
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