An unavoidable name in the history of European architecture is Luciano Laurana (Lucijano Vranjanin, 1420-1479), a Croat born near Zadar. Several Early Renaissance palaces and portals had been built up in Italian cities according to his design:

• Urbino (building of the grand Ducal Palace),
• Naples (portal – Triumphal arch in Castel Nuovo, 1450-1455),
• Venice (Porta Magna in the Arsenal, ~1460, symbol of the Serenissima at the sea),
• Mantova.

He considerably influenced the development of Renaissance architecture. His projects were accompanied with notes in the Croatian glagolitic script, as witnessed by the famous Bernardo Baldi.