# Death of the Virgin

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## Artwork

- Artist: [VECCHIETTA](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vecchietta-ra4510662765f44>)
- Date: 1451-1500
- Technique: Painted wood

## Commentary

Vecchietta&#39;s final commission \(1480\) was for painted wood reliefs of the Death of the Virgin and Assumption of the Virgin \(Villa Guinigi, Lucca\), but he lived to execute only the first, the Assumption being completed by Neroccio de&#39; Landi. This is a final instance of how Vecchietta helped to mould two generations of Sienese artists, but his greatest legacies were the works for his own chapel.

## Related artworks

- [Alms of St Lawrence](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vecchietta-ra4510662765f44/alms-of-st-lawrence-ra0e9cc8d4bbc1b>)
- [Alms of St Lawrence](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vecchietta-ra4510662765f44/alms-of-st-lawrence-rf970a252d7bedc>)
- [Arliquiera \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vecchietta-ra4510662765f44/arliquiera-detail-rf733b6341e95df>)
- [Arliquiera \(outer shutters\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vecchietta-ra4510662765f44/arliquiera-outer-shutters-r687ab895ebd1af>)
- [Ceiling decoration](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vecchietta-ra4510662765f44/ceiling-decoration-r0a0e070363d118>)
- [Ceiling decoration](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vecchietta-ra4510662765f44/ceiling-decoration-r4033173c3d1f7c>)
- [Ceiling decoration](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vecchietta-ra4510662765f44/ceiling-decoration-rf55dacd57bd2a1>)
- [Ciborium](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vecchietta-ra4510662765f44/ciborium-rb5fad721cfab53>)
- [Coronation of Pius II](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vecchietta-ra4510662765f44/coronation-of-pius-ii-r2864a9ada92c73>)
- [Dante: Divina Commedia](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vecchietta-ra4510662765f44/dante-divina-commedia-r0b87b3de8d709d>)
- [Death of the Virgin and Assumption of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vecchietta-ra4510662765f44/death-of-the-virgin-and-assumption-of-the-virgin-rc9e1a17086dace>)
- [Evangelists on the vault](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vecchietta-ra4510662765f44/evangelists-on-the-vault-r49e2fbbb20533a>)

## Attribution

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