Jernej of Loka

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Jernej of Loka (Bartholomew) was a 16th century painter active in the Škofja Loka area where he also gets his name from. He is known to have painted the frescos in a number of other churches, throughout the Upper Carniola region and some in the area of Tolmin of what is now Slovenia and in the the Natisone valley in what is now Italy .

Churches where frescos believed to have been painted by Jernej of Loka are preserved include:

• Church of St Mark, Vrba, between 1525 and 1530^[1]
• St John's church , Suha^[2]
  
• Church of St Peter, above Begunje, between 1530 and 1540^[3]
• Church of St John the Baptist, Lake Bohinj
• Church of St Peter, Bodovlje, between 1525 and 1540
• Church of St Thomas, Brodi near Škofja Loka between 1530 and 1540
• Church of St Nicholas, on Godešič, around 1530
• Church of St Lawrence, on Lovrenška gora
• Church of St Andrew, above Zminc, between 1520 and 1530
• Church of St Oswald, above Zminc, 1534
• Church of St Phillip and St Jakob , on Valterski vrh, soon after 1534
• Church of the Holy Cross on Križna gora
• Church of St Jost above Kranj, around 1530
• Church of St Clement, on Laški vrh
• Church of the Birth of the Virgin in Police near Cerkno, 1536^[4]
• Church of the Virgin Mary in Polje near Bovec, 1520-1540^[5]
• Church of the Virgin (Marija Snežna) in Nadavče near Kanal, around 1530^[6]
• Church of St John the Baptist in Spodnji Otok by Mošnje
• Church of Mary Magdalene, in Brod near Bohinjska Bistrica, around 1534^[7]
• Church of St Bartholomew in San Pietro in Natisone^[8]
• St Lucia the Virgin and Martyr in San Leonardo in Natisone

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