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Martin van Meytens: Maria Theresa in pink lace dress, oil painting, around 1755

Maria Theresa is shown at the age of around 40. On the cushion next to her are crowns as symbols of her most important sovereign titles: in the foreground the Hungarian Crown of St Stephen, behind it the Bohemian Crown of St Wenceslas and the Austrian Archduke's Hat. Hidden in the background we can also see the Crown of the Rudolphine House.

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    From the Theresian reforms to the battle of Königgrätz

    The systematic promotion of the military began under Maria Theresa and was to make it in the following decades into a commanding instrument of power. The wars with revolutionary France marked a new development in militarism, which also affected the Habsburg Monarchy.