Filippo Strozzi (1428-91) returned to Florence from exile in 1466, as a man with foreign contacts of an importance to make him indispensable as an adviser to Lorenzo the Magnificent - and with a fortune sufficient for him to embark in 1489 upon the building of the truly palatial Strozzi Palace. Before that he had purchased from the Boni family the freehold of the chapel in S. Maria Novella that bears his name and commissioned Filippino Lippi to decorate it.

The Chapel of Filippo Strozzi is dedicated to the Apostles Philip and James (formerly to St John the Evangelist). All the frescoes in the chapel are by Filippino Lippi who completed them in 1502. On the right wall of the chapel the artist depicted the scene St Philip Driving the Dragon from the Temple of Hieropolis, above it in the lunette the Crucifixion of St Philip can be seen. On the left wall: St John the Evangelist Resuscitating Druisana, while above in the lunette The Torture of St John the Evangelist is represented. In the vault: Adam, Noah, Abraham and Jacob can be seen.

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	View of the Strozzi Chapel 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	View of the Strozzi Chapel 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	View of the Strozzi Chapel 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	View of the frescoes in the Strozzi Chapel 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	View of the Strozzi Chapel (detail) 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	View of the Strozzi Chapel (detail) 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	St Philip Driving the Dragon from the Temple of Hieropolis 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	St Philip Driving the Dragon from the Temple of Hieropolis (detail) 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	St Philip Driving the Dragon from the Temple of Hieropolis (detail) 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	St Philip Driving the Dragon from the Temple of Hieropolis (detail) 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	St John the Evangelist Resuscitating Drusiana (detail) 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	St Philip Driving the Dragon from the Temple of Hieropolis (detail) 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	St Philip Driving the Dragon from the Temple of Hieropolis (detail) 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	Crucifixion of St Philip 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	St John the Evangelist Resuscitating Drusiana 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	St John the Evangelist Resuscitating Drusiana (detail) 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	St John the Evangelist Resuscitating Drusiana (detail) 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	St John the Evangelist Resuscitating Drusiana (detail) 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	Torture of St John the Evangelist 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	View of the Vaulting in the Strozzi Chapel 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	Abraham 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	Adam 1487-1502 Fresco Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence