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The Funeral of Saint Stephen by Fra Filippo Lippi and workshop, 1465, Duomo di Prato
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The Funeral of Saint Stephen

Fra Filippo Lippi and workshop (Italian, c. 1406–1469)

1465 · Affresco — in situ, Cappella Maggiore (fresco, in place, in the Cappella Maggiore) · Cattedrale di Santo Stefano, Prato — Cappella Maggiore, in situ

For Saint Stephen · 26 December

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image 24×11.4 in on a 24×18 in sheet

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About this painting

A dead man lies on his bier in red, and the living stand around him in their own clothes. Behind him an altar waits with its cross. "And devout men took order for Stephen's funeral and made great mourning over him." Fra Filippo Lippi and his workshop painted the mourning low on the left wall of the main chapel at Prato, and laid the saint, as the Web Gallery of Art reads it, on the central axis of a columned nave at the crossing, the tiled floor running up to the bier. The mourners are Lippi's contemporaries. Roggero Roggeri identifies the heavy figure at the right, in a cardinal's ample red, as Enea Silvio Piccolomini, later Pope Pius II. Tuscany's regional guide sees a probable self-portrait in the older of the two friars beside him: the painter, a friar himself, standing at the bier.

Sources: Web Gallery of Art, commentary on Filippo Lippi, Funeral of St Stephen, Prato, read 2026-09-24 · Roggero Roggeri, 'Enea Silvio Piccolomini: iconografia… Parte I, da Filippo Lippi al Sodoma', About Art Online, read 2026-09-24 · Visit Tuscany (Regione Toscana), 'Filippo Lippi frescoes in the Prato Cathedral', read 2026-09-24 · Prato Turismo, 'Cattedrale di Santo Stefano', read 2026-09-24

And devout men took order for Stephen's funeral and made great mourning over him.

Acts 8:2 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)

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The Record
Date 1465
Collection Duomo di Prato
Subject Saints
Season Ordinary Time
Master 9,108 px
License Public domain
Attribution Cattedrale di Santo Stefano, Prato — Cappella Maggiore, in situ

The original, as its museum records it

Artist Filippo Lippi, frate carmelitano e pittore (with Fra’ Diamante as documented assistant)
Date dal 1452 al 1465
Medium Affresco — in situ, Cappella Maggiore (fresco, in place, in the Cappella Maggiore)
Holding Cattedrale di Santo Stefano, Prato — Cappella Maggiore, in situ
Accession none — this work has never left the church it was painted for, and a work in situ carries no inventory number

Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.

The file this print is made from

Source Filippo Lippi e aiuti, Martirio e funerale di Santo Stefano, 1452-64 -FG2.jpg
Master 9,108 px on the long edge
Rights Public domain — the photograph as well as the painting
At a glance
ArtistFra Filippo Lippi and workshop (Italian, c. 1406–1469)
Date1465
MuseumCattedrale di Santo Stefano, Prato — Cappella Maggiore, in situ
MediumAffresco — in situ, Cappella Maggiore (fresco, in place, in the Cappella Maggiore)
Sheet sizes18×24 in, 16×32 in, 20×40 in, 24×36 in, 32×48 in, 30×60 in, 40×60 in
Provenance of the file
Held byCattedrale di Santo Stefano, Prato — Cappella Maggiore, in situ the museum’s record
Source fileWikimedia Commons · Filippo Lippi e aiuti, Martirio e funerale di Santo Stefano, 1452-64 -FG2.jpg
LicenceCreative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication
Master9,108 × 4,335 px, the file our printer receives
ChainTaken from Wikimedia Commons; held as our print master.

The sheets

18×24 in sheet 24×18 in · image 24×11.4 in · archival margin · 380 dpi
16×32 in sheet 32×16 in · image 32×15.2 in · archival margin · 285 dpi
20×40 in sheet 40×20 in · image 40×19 in · archival margin · 228 dpi
24×36 in sheet 36×24 in · image 36×17.1 in · archival margin · 253 dpi
32×48 in sheet 48×32 in · image 48×22.8 in · archival margin · 190 dpi
30×60 in sheet 60×30 in · image 60×28.6 in · archival margin · 152 dpi
40×60 in sheet 60×40 in · image 60×28.6 in · archival margin · 152 dpi

Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 9,108 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.