Focusing on the problem of professional and religious associations in the late Middle and Early Modern Ages, this paper discusses the structure and function of the painters confraternities in the city of Dubrovnik during the 15th and 16th century. Analyzing the contextual conditions of the development of medieval painting in Dubrovnik, the forthcoming text critically summarizes the current knowledge on the title topic and re-examines scientific researches undertaken so far. The aim of this paper is to partially reconstruct the rules of confraternal statutes, to examine which obligations local and foreign masters had to fulfill towards the confraternity, to systematize the list of known gastaldo and to examine possible influence of the confraternities on the artistic style of Gothic and Renaissance painters in the late medieval and early modern Dubrovnik. The expected outcome of the thesis is to provide an overview of relevant archival sources in the context of the title topic and to upgrade current knowledge about the social and organizational aspect of local painters through a comparative analysis of historical documents and relevant scientific literature.