Stephen Stoning   

The Stoning of Saint Stephen (1520-1521)

by:   Romano      patron:   Giberti      category: Painting    location: Santo Stefano
related artifacts: Pala Fugger | Stoning cartoon | Stoning lost modello | Stoning study 1 | Stoning study 2 | Stoning study 3

note:  One of Romano's largest commissions of his career. Vasari noted patron Gian Matteo Giberti, who was a Papal Datary and also served as Bishop of Verona from 1529. Linked here to Pala Fugger as the Classical landscape in the distance corresponds in both as noted in Nesselrath (1986).