Jernej of Loka

Jernej of Loka (Bartholomew) was a 16th-century painter active in the Škofja Loka area, from which his epithet is also derived. He is known to have painted the frescoes in a number of other churches throughout the Upper Carniola region and some in the area of Tolmin (Slovenia) and in the Natisone Valley (Italy).

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

St. Mark's Church, Vrba, between 1525 and 1530 St. John's Church, Suha St. Peter's Church, above Begunje, between 1530 and 1540 St. John the Baptist Church, Lake Bohinj St. Peter's Church, Bodovlje, between 1525 and 1540 St. Thomas' Church, Brode near Škofja Loka between 1530 and 1540 St. Nicholas' Church, in Godešič, around 1530 St. Lawrence's Church, above Zminec St. Andrew's Church, at Sveti Andrej above Zminc, between 1520 and 1530 St. Oswald's Church, above Sveti Ožbolt, 1534 Sts. Phillip and James Church, in Valterski Vrh, soon after 1534 Holy Cross Church in Križna Gora St. Bricius' Church in Četena Ravan St. Jodocus' Church above Kranj, around 1530 St. Clement's Church, in Bukovščica Birth of the Virgin Church in Police near Cerkno, 1536 Virgin Mary Church in Polje near Bovec, 1520–1540 Our Lady of the Snows Church above Avče near Kanal, around 1530 St. John the Baptist Church in Spodnji Otok by Mošnje St. Mary Magdalene Church, in Brod near Bohinjska Bistrica, around 1534 St. Bartholomew's Church in San Pietro in Natisone St. Lucy, Virgin and Martyr Church in San Leonardo in Natisone