The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Claude Vignon was a French painter of the 17th century known for religious and historical compositions executed in a dynamic, naturalistic style informed by Caravaggio's dramatic chiaroscuro and the Baroque sensibility of Rome, where he trained. Active in Paris from the 1620s onward, he became a court painter and received commissions for altarpieces and royal decorative schemes. His work bridges Venetian colorism and northern European precision, rendered in oil on canvas with a restless energy and attention to narrative detail characteristic of Counter-Reformation art.

Tours, France