Karol Ondreička frequently devoted himself to the topic of the Madonna with Child in his works of art. There was probably no other Slovak artist in the first half of the 20th century who would have portrayed her with such a degree of varying creativity as he did. The first picture in the series, Madona slovenských hôr (Madonna of the Slovak Mountains) (1928) caused a stir in the Slovak cultural public since Ondreička succeeded in combining traditional Christian iconography with the typical Slovak mountain landscape where flocks of sheep graze under the supervision of shepherds and a wayside shrine or Calvary...