Biagio di Giorgio da Traù (ca.1385-1449)
• Was a Dalmatian painter.
• Born in Trogir, died in Zadar, he was active in Dalmatia.
• Biagio di Giorgio da Traù was a member of the Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit of Trogir.
• He is author of fourteen paintings, all of a religious nature.
• Biagio comes from a family of modest origins, which during his life would have collaborated with the aristocracy of Trogir, Zadar and Ragusa.
• His artistic training would begin in Trogir (in 1412 he was commissioned to decorate the vault of the high altar of St. Francis in Split), and continued in Venice.
• After his studies in Venice he returned to Ragusa where he remained for six years (1421-27), he stayed in a house in the municipality where he probably opened a workshop for the training of local painters.
• Finally he settled in Zadar, where he died in the last months of 1449.
