(b Cariñena, Aragon; fl 1364; d 1401). Spanish illuminator and painter. He worked in Valencia and Barcelona and was responsible for the continuation of the so-called International Gothic style in Catalonia, Aragon and Valencia. He is recorded in Valencia from 1364 to 1366; in the latter year he was working in Barcelona, where he was paid by Queen Eleanor (d 1374) for two retables, one of St Nicholas for the Franciscan convent in Calatayud and the other of St Catherine for the Franciscan convent in Teruel, both of which are untraced. In 1373 King Peter IV of Aragon (reg 1336–87) referred to him in a letter to the Council of Albocacer as the best painter of Barcelona. Lorenzo later returned to Valencia, where he is documented from 1377 to 1401, the year of his death. His varied commissions there included an embroidered cloth for the Armourers’ Guild (1390; untraced) and a series of ceiling paintings for the Casa del Peso Real (1391; untraced). Lorenzo Zaragoza remains an enigmatic figure in the history of Spanish painting, however, because of the difficulties of defining a corpus of works for him. His one authenticated surviving work is the retable of the Virgin and Child with SS Martin and Agatha (c. 1395; San Roque, Mus. Ermita), which reveals the elongations, use of gilding and refinement characteristic of the international style.