 His sculptures and busts depicted his subjects as they were; they were dressed in ordinary clothing and given natural postures and expressions, without pretentions of heroism.The Baroque movement flourished especially in the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century in Germany and the states of the Habsburg Empire governed from Vienna.A large number of churches and statues had been destroyed by the Protestant iconoclasts during the Reformation and the Wars of Religion, and large numbers of new works were made to replace them.