Lovro Marinov Dobričević (c. 1420 - 1478)

• Also known as Lorenzo Bon, Lorenzo di Marino da Cattaro.
• Was a painter from Venetian Dalmatia.

• Born in Kotor, Republic of Venice (now Montenegro).

• He studied art in Venice before returning to Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik) to work. 

• He first started to paint in the Serbian Orthodox Savina Monastery in Zeta and Serbian Despotate in the mid-15th century.

• His paintings may still be seen in both the Dominican and Franciscan monasteries in the city of Dubrovnik.

• He was part of a group called the Ragusan School of Painting which included Blaž Jurjev Trogiranin, Jovan Ugrinović, Mihajlo Hamzić and Nikola Božidarević.

• They specialized in painting icons and iconostasis for both churches and monasteries of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

• He died in Dubrovnik.

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