Anđeo Lovrov Zadranin or Anđeo Lovrin (active during the fourteenth century) was a
Croatia
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n
architect
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, born in
Zadar
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and mostly active in
Dubrovnik
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.
He was a member of an architect family from Zadar. He had brothers Nikola,
Juraj and Petar, who were also architects or builders.
He is mentioned in documents between 1339 and 1368. From 1348 he works on the
St. Blaise's Church and the
Franciscan Church and Monastery in Dubrovnik. After that, he left for
Kotor
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, where he had a
stonemasonry
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workshop.
Literature
* Cvito Fisković: Zadarski majstori u Dubrovniku tokom 14. stoljeća, Anali, Dubrovnik, 1953.
* Cvito Fisković: Prvi poznati dubrovački graditelji, JAZU, Dubrovnik, 1955.
* Cvito Fisković: Zadarski srednjovječni majstori, MH, Split, 1959.
See also
*
List of Croatian architects
*
List of people from Zadar
External links
Biography in the Croatian Biographical Lexicon''(in Croatian)''
Anđeo Lovrov among the Croatian sculptors and architects in Dalmatia''(in Croatian)''
Year of death unknown
Year of birth unknown
Architects from Zadar
14th-century Croatian people
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