Presented are new findings obtained from archival documents. They show that G. B. Mazzoleni, who has been presented as an architect, sculptor and stuccoist, active in Gorizia region and Trieste, was most probably a Venetian by birth and merely a stone-cutter by profession who ordered sculptural pieces from Venetian and Friulian sculptors. He came from Venice to complete the commission for the Carmelite monastery at Kostanjevica near Gorizia. Highlighted is the aspect of migration of artists within the scope of monastic orders and Slovene art heritage is placed in a wider European context.
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The paper calls attention to the painting collection in the Ursuline convent in Ljubljana. Among numerous significant pictures it also contains The Death of St. Ursula by P. Owereg. The painting is noted in a document of c. 1715 (J. G. Thalnitscher: Annales Urbis Labacensis), but it was believed to be lost. Linking it with the master (subsequently corroborated by the discovery of his signature) is particularly important, because, as a rule, it is difficult to relate mentions of artists’ names and works of art in inventories to the surviving paintings.
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