Lovro Dobričević dating history

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Lovro Marinov Dobričević or Lorenzo Bon, Lorenzo di Marino da Cattaro (c. 1420, in Kotor, Republic of Venice (now Montenegro) – 1478, in Ragusa, (now Dubrovnik in Croatia) was a painter from Kotor. He studied art in Venice before returning to Dubrovnik to work. He first started to paint in the Serbian Orthodox Savina Monastery in Zeta and Serbian Despotate (now Montenegro) in the mid-15th century. Also, his paintings may still be seen in both the Dominican and Franciscan monasteries in the city of Dubrovnik; one of his altarpieces may still be seen in a church in Slano. He was part of a group called the Dubrovnik Painting School which included Blaž Jurjev Trogiranin, Vicko Lovrin, Mihajlo Hamzić, Jovan Ugrinović, 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, and Polyptych of the Roman Church tradition in Dubrovnik.