Luka Mislej [SEP] date of birth
Luka Mislej
Luka Mislej (16 October 1658 – 5 February 1727) was a Carniolan stonemason and sculptor.
Life.
Mislej, who was probably born in Vipava, lived in Ljubljana. In 1722 the Italian sculptor Francesco Robba, who took over his atelier after his death, married his daughter Theresa. Mislej died in Škofja Loka.
Work.
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
, it was replaced with a stone one, made by Luka Mislej, whereas the marble statues have been presumably created by Francesco Robba. In 1834, the stonemason Ignacij Toman made a new pedestal and the original Robba's sculpture was replaced with a replica. The original is now kept by the City Museum of Ljubljana. The column was again renovated after the 1895 Ljubljana earthquake by the stonemason Feliks Toman. It was relocated in front of the Ursuline Church in 1927 upon plans by Plečnik as part of his redesign of Congress Square