This was a time or restoration, peace, stability and well-being. Marija Terezija and her son, Kaiser Joseph II. Contributed greatly to quick economic growth and stimulated the development of the schooling system. The period of the so-called Enlightened Absolutism was a period of reforms and unification process of the then Austrian State, part of which was also the Slovenian territory. Art, especially painting blossomed, as well. In this period the Slovenian artefact called panjske končnice (the beehive front boards) was created, a real picture encyclopaedia of the nation's life, a valuable exhibit of the Zeitgeist and life at the time. The painter and beekeeper Anton Janša (1734-1773) was the first to distinguish himself with this work. Slovenian regions also experienced the unrest caused by the Age of Enlightenment. The circle of intelligentsia around the baron Žiga Zois (1740–1819) ensured that the national enlightenment also took place in Slovenia, which strengthened the Slovenian national conscience a lot. The Slovenes got the first Slovenian newspaper »Novice« (1797) and the first Slovenian drama »Ta veseli dan ali Matiček se ženi«, the work of Anton Tomaž Linhart (1756-1795).
