Article deals with family portraits in Slovak art collections and cultural monuments. It describes formal procedures used in sacral art which could lead to several ways of how to portrait family and its members. Those methods were determined by the intention of an author and given time period. We can find paintings which picture married couple of donators, painting of a family as a group on epitaphs, diptych, triptych or the whole collections of individual portraits in family galleries, double portraits and paintings of families as a group.
