The final seminar paper aims to illuminate and analyze the portraits of Wolf Daniel, the Baron Erberg (Ljubljana, August 27, 1714 – Dol pri Ljubljani, August 7, 1783) and Maria Anna, the Baroness Erberg, née Neuhaus (Gorizia, August 27, 1744 – Dol pri Ljubljani, March 27, 1774), painted in the oil technique by Fortunat Bergant (Mekinje pri Kamniku, September 6, 1721 – Ljubljana, March 31, 1769) for the manor in Dol pri Ljubljani (German Lustthal) in the 1760s. After the portraits were discovered on the Italian art market, the images of husband and wife were bought by the National Gallery, where they are kept to this day. The two members of the Baron family Erberg are painted as sitting knee-length figures, presented in a typical and frequent 18th-century representative aristocratic portrait. Through his treatment of the portrayed persons, surrounding objects, space, composition, colour and lighting in the Erberg’s portraits, the Baroque painter Fortunat Bergant, who incorporated Italian art patterns into his stylistic expression, provided a remarkable and wholesome artistic product
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