Martyrdom of St Lawrence

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 Masolino's vault frescoes, show that Vecchietta's closely packed compositional style was already fully formed.