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Italian artistic journeys belong to the most important themes in European art-historical writings, since the artistic production of Italian centres performed in a long term the 'codified' model and basis for the rest of Europe. Despite this, the phenomenon has not been systematically worked-out in Slovak art history. The present study is one of the first attempts of Slovak art history to map the travels of artists coming from former Upper Hungary (today Slovakia) in the 19th century - e.g. Karol Marko Sr., Karol Ľudovít Libay or Dominik Skutecký - to Rome, Naples, Florence and Venetia. It presents partial results of the current research executed mainly in Italian and local archives.