The Stoning of Saint Stephen
Bartholomeus Breenbergh 1598 – 1657
oil on panel (67 × 92 cm) — 1632
Acts 7:58 - And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
The pious Stephen was a member of the first Christian community in Jerusalem. He was stoned to death because he had accused priests of breaking the law. A crowd captured him and stoned him outside the city walls. Stephen thus became the first Christian martyr. From a distance Paul looks on. At the time he was still a fanatical persecutor of Christians.
A wide, open landscape with Roman ruins: this painting is typical for the works of Breenbergh.
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