A wealth of finds of the Illyrians and the Celts from the Hallstatt period (800-400 BC) and the following La-Tène period as well as finds from Roman times (15 BC - 500 AD)can be seen in the museums.
Many churches were built in Salzburg in the Romanticism period but only a few remains are left (St.Pter´s Abbey and the Franciscan church).
From medieval times we can still find frescos in the Nonnberg monastery.
St.Peter´s Abbey was centre of illuminations, many of them can bee seen in the
national library in Vienna.
During the Gothic perion again many churches were built.
Gothic glass paintings can be seen in St Lenhard´s church in Tamsweg in the
and Nonnberg monastery. The many carved altars (e.g. St.Leonhard´s church)
found in Salzburg are true masterpieces. Important Gothic painters are Conrad Laib and Rueland Frueauf, but also Wolf Huber and Albrecht Altdorfer painted in Salzburg.
From the Renaissance period almost nothing has remained.
In the time during Renaissance and Baroque Hellbrunn castle with its beautiful murals and gardens was built in mannerism style.
The most productive area as far as art is conscerned was the Baroque period; beside early Baroque churches we find masterpieces of the famous Austrian architects Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (Kollegienkirche, Dreifaltigkeitskirche and Castle Kleßheim) and Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (Mirabell castle).
Many works from the period of early Classicism, mainly by Wolfgang and
Johann Baptist Hagenauer (parsh churches of Hallein and Böckstein), can be found in Salzburg.
Examples of Historism (19th century, from new Gothic to late Baroque) are Castle Anif (Tudor Gothic) and the parish churche of Badgastein, by Friedrich von Schmidt and the parish church of St.Johann im Pongau, both new Gothic style.