© Slovak Post, 2007 Baroque art was - in many aspects - very closely associated with the revival of the worship-cult of the Saints, even in our region. Potrident iconography brought newly canonised Saints and purposely revived a whole variety of various medieval Saint patrons and guardians. Those also included the Bratislava-born daughter of the Hungarian king Andrew II – Elisabeth of Hungary (* 1207). She was also known as Elisabeth of Thüringen after her husband, the thüringisch Count Ludwig IV. After his death in 1227, she forsook her estates and lived voluntarily in poverty in the Franciscan monastery in Marburg, where she took care of the sick. There she died in November 1231. For her self-sacrificing charitable activities she was - just four years after her death - canonised by Pope Gregor IX. Together with other Saints – St. Hedwig of Andechs and St. Agnes of Bohemia – she forms the trinity of great female charity-saints of Central Europe. She is frequently pictured as a Franciscan nun or in the noble costume of this period with a crown and typical beggar at her feet. She was painted similarly in an altar canvas painting of uncertain origin, introduced to the SNG collection in 1972. As the question mark by the artist's name indicates, the identity of the painting's authorship (dating back to the middle of the 18th century) has yet to be resolved. After its restoration by M. Keleti - the SNG's curator of the Baroque collection - this painting of relative good quality was again attributed to the Palko brothers, the members of an important artistic family of Silesian origin who worked in Vienna as well as Bratislava. In her last works, the curator assigned that painting (hypothetically, on the basis of stylistic critique) to the younger and more talented František K. Palko (1724 Wrocław – 1767 Munich). However, this attribution has not been fully accepted and still remains subject to further fine-art research in the field of Austria-oriented painting of the 18th century in our region. Such research - despite being extensive – still has many missing gaps. Katarína Chmelinová