Late baroque sculptor Joseph Straub and his works for the Church of Saint Mary in Sladka gora, Slovenia

This article presents the Church of Saint Mary in Sladka gora in Styria, Slovenia. It focuses on baroque sculptor Joseph Straub and his works for the church. I start with the historical circumstances regarding the building of the church and its furnishing, presenting state of research. In the second part, I focus on the façade sculptures and provide their iconographic and stylistic analysis. The latter conforms that their author is indeed late baroque sculptor Joseph Straub. Furthermore, I also analyse the other works in the church attributed to this sculptor – sculptures from the pulpit as well as sculptures on the organ case