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Dalmatian Italian architect and engineer

Luciano Laurana (Lutiano Dellaurana, Croatian: Lucijan Vranjanin)^[1] (c. 1420 – 1479) was a Dalmatian Italian architect and engineer from the historic Vrana settlement near the town of Zadar in Dalmatia,^[2] (today in Croatia, then part of the Republic of Venice)^[2] After education by his father Martin in Vrana settlement, he worked mostly in Italy during the late 15th century.

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He was principal designer of the Palazzo Ducale of Urbino and one of the main figures in 15th-century Italian architecture.^[3] 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.^[4] He was a relative of the sculptor Francesco Laurana.

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Laurana was born in Vrana near Zadar in Dalmatia. Later in life, the Italians in Urbino called him Schiavone Luciano Laurana - Wikipedia POBU