In the paper, the authoress presents new findings, particularly from archival sources, on the pilgrimage church of the Virgin Mary on Sladka Gora, which is one of the most exquisite Baroque monuments in Slovenia. The paper focuses on two ambitious parish priests from the Mikec family, the Congregation of the Immaculate Conception in Sladka Gora, as well as on the context of Cebej’s oil painting of the Reception of Mary in Heaven, which has a special place in the church interior and is also known as the only convex painting discovered in Slovenia. With the help of archival documents, it is possible to set a few hypotheses about the painting that touches especially on the circumstances of the painting’s origin and its patronage, its convex shape, and the iconographic connection with the rest of the church iconography.
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