Nikola Mihovilov Arbusjanić is one of the important master-builders of the Zadar Gothic period. His fourty years long career (from 1385 to 1425) proves him to be one of the key figures engaged in the process of moulding the late Gothic physiognomy of the city. Archival evidence reveals that he was perhaps the most employed builder of houses, mostly luxurious aristocratic palaces, but that he was also engaged in various other building enterprises (the erection of churches, hospitals, warehouses, restoration of the city walls and roof construction). Of special interest was his skill in handling woodwork - making choir seats, wooden church vaults, carved wood sculptures and futniture - and there is no doubt that this skill was expressed in his articulation of interiors. Unfortunately, none of his work have been preserved (or can with certainty be recognized), so that the archive is the only witness to his role in the building enterprises taking place in late Medieval Zadar.
