Bergant was the most atypical artist of the 18th century in the Slovene lands. He studied at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, but in spite of his mastery of natural forms he altered his figures. He was neither married nor was he a citizen of Ljubljana or a guildsman, nor had he a workshop of his own or his own property. He worked for his patrons and supporters (members of the noble families Rasp, Erberg, Codelli, Taufferer), and he also died in the home of one of them, the Erberg family. Besides religious paintings, pervaded by ecstatic trance of the depicted protagonists, he also painted portraits of his aristocratic contemporaries with great psychological insight.