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Dubrovnik
Mural artist in Dubrovnik
In Dubrovnik, Giulia Dal Bon paints murals with a brush, in villas, flats, hotels, restaurants and on terraces. Trained at the Brera Academy, she paints on site, from 150 € per square metre. Free quote within 48 hours, two sketches included: you approve the design before Giulia paints.
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The price of a mural in Dubrovnik
| Simple motif or line drawingFine lines for flowers, patterns, silhouettes or figures… | 150 €/sqm |
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| Fully painted subjectColours and shadows for landscapes, portraits or scenes… | 250 €/sqm |
| Trompe-l’oeil or ceilingThe wall opens onto a false window, a sky on the ceiling or an entire landscape… | 350 €/sqm |
| Exterior facade: if needed, scaffolding is added to the quote. | |
Free quote within 48h
Surface and technique set the price; interior or exterior, the condition of the wall, the height, any scaffolding and the timing are then written into the quote.
Where to start?
When you contact me about a mural in Dubrovnik, here is what happens next.
A photo of the wall with the sketch
Send me a photo of the wall and I draw a sketch straight onto your photo. You tell me what you think. The first two sketches are free.
The quote
Once the sketch is approved, I send you the quote and we set the date together.
I paint the wall
I come and paint at your place in Dubrovnik, by brush, and the place stays open while I work.
Murals in Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik’s old town, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1979 among the very first sites, was restored in exemplary fashion after the damage of 1991. Every summer since 1950, the Dubrovnik Summer Festival turns more than seventy open-air venues of the Renaissance and Baroque city into stages for music, theatre and dance. In Dubrovnik, Giulia paints for stone houses, hotels and restaurants. Giulia travels easily to Dubrovnik to paint: you send her a photo of the wall and she draws the sketch straight onto it, so you see the mural in place before she travels.
What Giulia brings to Dubrovnik. Giulia is a painter, trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. She exhibits her paintings in art galleries and also paints on walls. Corriere della Sera, Domus and Sky Arte have covered her work, and her mural of more than twenty metres dedicated to Gaber and Jannacci stands in Milan. The wall is her favourite canvas because it truly becomes part of a place, a unique work made to tell your story.
Giulia also paints live in Dubrovnik. For a seaside wedding, a summer evening or a birthday, she sets up her easel and the painting takes shape in front of your guests, signed and taken home the same evening. From 950 € for a wedding, from 400 € for a performance. For a wedding, see live wedding painting in Dubrovnik.
Dubrovnik, between the Stradun and the walls
Here a mural enters a Renaissance and Baroque city that turns into a stage every summer.
Houses and apartments
Bedrooms, living rooms, hallways, entrances and ceilings of the stone houses of the old town and Lapad. Example: an 8 sqm bedroom wall fully painted, around 2 000 €.
Hotels, restaurants and shops
Hotels, restaurants and shops on the Stradun, in Ploče and Lapad. A hand-painted mural belongs to this place alone, and it is what people remember about it. From 150 € per sqm.
Facades and exterior walls
Strong sun and salt test the facades: quartz paint, with anti-salt varnish on request. In the UNESCO-listed old town, a facade needs the owner’s agreement and a permit. From 150 € per sqm, plus scaffolding if needed.
Your questions, before commissioning
A photo of the wall, its approximate dimensions and the idea you have in mind are enough to receive a quote.
How much does a mural cost in Dubrovnik?
Giulia Dal Bon’s price is per square metre: 150 € for a line drawing or a simple motif, 250 € for a fully painted subject, 350 € for trompe-l’oeil or a ceiling. A small mural in a bedroom costs less than a facade that needs preparation and scaffolding. The quote is free: see all prices.
How do I get a mural painted in my home in Dubrovnik?
Write to Giulia Dal Bon on WhatsApp or by email, even if the idea is still vague: she replies within 48 hours. Send her a photo of the wall to be painted, she draws a sketch straight onto your photo, you tell her what you think, and the first two sketches are free. Once the sketch is approved, she sends you the quote, from 150 € per sqm in Dubrovnik, and sets the date with you. She then comes and paints the mural at your place in Dubrovnik, by brush, and the place stays open while she works.
What does the price of a mural in Dubrovnik include?
With Giulia Dal Bon, the price per square metre includes the paint and materials, the first two sketches and the protective varnish as a finish. While she paints, you tell her what you think, and she adjusts. Added to the quote, when needed, are the scaffolding for a facade and travel costs, agreed together. The quote is free and arrives within 48 hours; a deposit of about 100 € for materials confirms the date, and the balance is settled at the end.
Can I see the design before saying yes?
Yes. Before any agreement, Giulia shows you the sketch on a photo of your wall, with a detailed price. Two free sketches are proposed to you before you confirm, and she adjusts them with you.
What kind of mural works well in Dubrovnik?
In Dubrovnik, dining-room decors in the old-town restaurants and sea subjects in the houses and hotels above the walls. Everything is painted with a brush, in odourless acrylic.
Does it damage the wall?
The wall stays intact. Acrylic bonds to a painted or plastered wall, which keeps its finish and needs only a light preparation. And if you change your mind in ten years, a roller of paint covers it.
Can a view of Dubrovnik be painted on a wall?
Yes, and it is a subject that sits well on a large wall. The walls encircling the old town, listed by UNESCO in 1979, the packed orange tiled roofs and the Adriatic below. Giulia Dal Bon paints all of it with a brush. As a line drawing, the view falls under the 150 € per sqm rate; with colour and shadow, it starts at 250 € per sqm. Free quote within 48 hours.
What subject works well for a mural in Dubrovnik?
The subjects that work here: floral and botanical work for bedrooms and living rooms, landscapes for living spaces and terraces, trompe l’oeil for facades and ceilings. Everything is drawn to measure: Giulia offers two free sketches from your idea, and you refine it together until the subject is yours.
What is the difference between a hand-painted mural and spray-painted graffiti?
Two gestures, two finishes. The spray can gives a fast, graphic line. The brush lays colour down layer after layer, which opens up gradients, fine detail and trompe l’oeil: the mural becomes a painting on the wall. In Dubrovnik, Giulia Dal Bon works with a brush, in odourless acrylic indoors, and the place stays open while she paints. The choice comes down to the finish you are after.
What do you call an artist who paints on walls?
A muralist, a mural artist or a decorative painter. In Dubrovnik, Giulia Dal Bon paints by hand with a brush, from apartments to façades: trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, she exhibits her paintings in art galleries and also paints on walls. The same searches go through wall mural, hand-painted wall or wall art. Send a photo of your wall, and the quote arrives within 48 hours.
Does a mural hold up outdoors in Dubrovnik?
Yes, with surface preparation and quartz paint, made for outdoor walls. In Dubrovnik sun and salt are strong: lightfast pigments are used and, on request, an anti-salt varnish. For a facade in Dubrovnik, the paint, the wall preparation and how long it lasts are explained in the mural paint and durability guide.
Do I need permission to paint a facade in Dubrovnik?
An interior wall can be painted freely. For a facade visible from the street, you usually need the owner’s or the building association’s approval, and a notice to the town hall if the building is in a protected area. Giulia explains the process before starting.
How long does it take to paint a mural?
It depends on the surface, the level of detail and how easy the wall is to reach. Giulia gives the timing with the quote, within 48 hours, and gives plenty of notice if the schedule moves. The place keeps running while she works: the acrylic is odourless.
How long does a mural last?
The murals Giulia Dal Bon paints last a lifetime indoors: the paint becomes part of the plaster and lives as long as the wall. Outdoors, quartz paint is made for facades, and an anti-salt or anti-pollution varnish extends it further. And if one day you want a change, it can be painted over like any wall paint.
Other spaces
The other places Giulia paints, her portfolio and the towns nearby.
Homes and villas
A bedroom, a hallway, a staircase: the walls you look at every day.
A mural for your home
Restaurants, hotels, and boutiques
A painted wall gives the room its character, and the place stays open while she works.
A mural for your restaurant
Ideas for spaces
The mural can stay simple or take on a stronger wall presence. It depends on scale, function, circulation, and the way the wall is seen.
Homes and villas
Villas, apartments, and bedrooms where the mural can live with strong light, larger volumes, and refined materials while staying understated.
Hotels, restaurants, and boutiques
Hotels, restaurants, boutiques, and image-led spaces where painting can become a very recognizable and immediately elegant presence.
A mural made for this place
Nearby towns
From Dubrovnik, the mural can open toward these nearby places.
French Riviera · Venice · Athens · Taormina · Capri
The mural of over 20 metres for Gaber and Jannacci, in Milan, in the press
Giulia Dal Bon, trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan.
Where Giulia works in Dubrovnik
In Dubrovnik, whether it is a house, a villa, a second home or a flat, Giulia paints on an interior wall : the living room, the children’s bedroom and the bedroom. The same work applies to the kitchen, the bathroom, the entrance, the hallway and the stairwell. A ceiling is painted like a wall, working overhead. Outside, she switches to quartz paint on the exterior facade and the garden wall. In a rented place, she paints on a mobile panel that you take with you.
In a restaurant, a pizzeria, a café or a bar in Dubrovnik, she paints the dining-room wall, and service carries on while she works. For a boutique and a shop, she paints the shop window and the shutter, a front you recognise from down the street. In a hotel and a B&B, she paints the lobbies, the corridors and the rooms. For a hair salon, a spa and a gym, she paints the cabin, changing-room and reception walls. In a medical practice, a waiting room and a nursery, she paints the wall you face while you wait. For an office and a showroom, she paints reception, the corridor and the meeting room. A cellar is painted too, right down its stairs.
In the old town, Stradun, Ploče, Lapad and Gruž, you send her a photo of the wall and she draws the sketch straight onto it, then you shape the idea together.
As for the subject, Giulia draws what you want to see on that particular wall: a landscape, a floral or botanical motif, a painted sky on a ceiling, a perspective trompe-l’oeil, figures, animals, lettering or a painted sign. She also reproduces an existing work. Two sketches come to you before the first brushstroke.
Possible subjects in Dubrovnik: the packed orange tiled roofs and the Adriatic below, the walls encircling the old town, listed by UNESCO in 1979. Alongside these, a trompe-l’oeil window, a botanical motif or a painted sky remain possible.
The craft goes by several names, and each of them is right about something. Mural and wall mural speak of the wall, wall decoration and mural decoration speak of the room, decorative painting speaks of the gesture, trompe-l’oeil speaks of the effect. A hand-painted wall, a drawing on a wall, a painting made directly on the wall: still the same thing. In Dubrovnik, it is called a mural artist, a muralist, a wall artist, a decorative painter.
Dubrovnik lives between the Stradun, the walls and the Summer Festival founded in 1950, which turns the old town into more than seventy open-air stages each year.
Giulia also travels to Split and to along the whole Dalmatian coast.
Where the mural can find its place
- In a flat, a villa or a house, Giulia paints the living room, the bedroom, the entrance, the hallway, the covered terrace and the ceiling. From 150 € per sqm, free quote within 48h.
- For a hotel, a suite, a restaurant, a boutique or a spa, Giulia paints the bedroom wall, the lobby, the shop window and the dining room. Free quote within 48h.
- The mural can stay simple or take on a stronger wall presence