The Franciscans came to Koprivnica at the end of the 13th century, where they started holding services in an abandoned Romanesque church. In the first half of the next century, they built a new single-nave church with buttresses and a polygonal sanctuary, but years later the Franciscans decided to leave the church and the town. Their return is crucial for the theme of the thesis, which focuses on the artistic heritage of the Baroque period preserved in the church and the monastery, which holds works by Izaija Gasser, Johann Josef Carl Henrici and sculptor Ivan Jakob Altenbach. Returning to the city, they built a new church and monastery of St. Anthony of Padua in another location, and it was a single-nave Baroque church with a rectangular floor plan with a three-sided sanctuary and bell tower, next to which a monastery complex was built. In the 17th and the first half of the 18th century, natural disasters left their mark on the church, which originally contained two chapels, the Lauretan chapel and the chapel of the Most Holy Redeemer, of which only the latter chapel was preserved. The thesis also provides an overview of the historical circumstances for the development of Koprivnica as a city, for it had for many years an important military function due to constant incursions and wars with the Ottomans. The historical overview also covers the history of the Franciscan order and the founding of the province of St. Ladislaus, which played an important role in the return of the Franciscans to Koprivnica.