Luka Mislej was a Slovenian sculptor and painter.

In 1722 the Italian sculptor Francesco Robba

Francesco Robba

Francesco Robba was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period. Even while he is regarded as the leading Baroque sculptor of marble statues in the south-east Central Europe, he has remained practically unknown to the international scholarly public.-Life:Francesco Robba was born in Venice...

, who took over his atelier after his death, married his daughter Theresa.

Works

Since Mislej was the owner of a large laboratory that had numerous orders for the construction and equipping of many slavic churches to which worked on other sculptors, mostly Italian, including Angelo Pozzo, Giacomo Conti (both from Padoa) and the already mentioned Francesco Robba, is still today very difficult to determine what actually are his works.

Some of his more known works there are the monumental gates of Ljubljana

Ljubljana

Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...

 seminary

Seminary

A seminary, theological college, or divinity school is an institution of secondary or post-secondary education for educating students in theology, generally to prepare them for ordination as clergy or for other ministry...

, the painted decoration of Saint Jack church in Ljubljana, the altar of Brežice

Brežice

Brežice is a city and municipality in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley, near the Croatian border. The area was traditionally divided between Lower Styria and Lower Carniola...

 castle's chapel and the main altar of Fiume's Cathedral.