Dominican Monastery Museum
Old Town, Dubrovnik, Croatia
The Dominican monastery is a particularly rewarding stop for travellers interested in painting. Its museum brings together works of the Dubrovnik school, including Nikola Božidarević and Lovro Dobričević, alongside religious objects and later Croatian art. The surrounding Gothic-Renaissance cloister gives the collection an architectural setting of its own. Look closely at how the paintings combine devotional conventions with emerging Renaissance interests in landscape and human presence; this is a collection to approach patiently, rather than simply tick off.