# Martyrdom of St Lawrence [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VECCHIETTA]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary Between 1435 and 1439 Vecchietta executed for Cardinal Branda Castiglione \(1350–1443\) a series of frescoes at Castiglione Olona, near Varese in Lombardy. He has been considered an assistant of Masolino da Panicale in this enterprise, but the scenes of the martyrdoms of Sts Lawrence and Stephen in the apse of the Collegiata, below <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/masolino/olona/index.html'\)" href="/html/m/masolino/olona/index.html">Masolino's vault frescoes,</a> show that Vecchietta's closely packed compositional style was already fully formed. ## Related artworks - [Alms of St Lawrence]() - [Alms of St Lawrence]() - [Arliquiera \(detail\)]() - [Arliquiera \(outer shutters\)]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ciborium]() - [Coronation of Pius II]() - [Dante: Divina Commedia]() - [Death of the Virgin and Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Death of the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()