VASARI, Giorgio
(b. 1511, Arezzo, d. 1574, Firenze)

Martyrdom of St Stephen

1560s
Oil on canvas, 300 x 163 cm
Pinacoteca, Vatican

Vasari's Martyrdom of St Stephen, executed for a chapel in the Vatican, was influenced by a painting of the same subject by Filippo Lippi in the Prato Cathedral.