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 and pupil of Hendrik van Steenwyck the elder; fellow scholar with Pieter Neefs. Painted architectural backgrounds for many of Van Dyck's pictures. Worked first at Antwerp; after 1629 in England, when Charles I. ordered several pictures from him. Works: Christ before the High Priest, Peter's Denial, Madrid Museum; Jesus with Martha and Mary (1620), four Church Interiors, Louvre, Paris; View of a Public Square (1614), Hague Museum; Interior by Candle-Light, Suermondt Museum, Aix-la-Chapelle; Liberation of Peter (2), Gothic Church Interior, Brunswick Gallery; A Prison (1649), Berlin Museum; Liberation of Peter (2, one dated 1631), Darmstadt Museum; Terrace before Vestibule of Renaissance Building (1618), Leipsic Museum; Italian Palace (1623), Interior of Sacristy (1634), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Interior of Renaissance Palace (1611), three others, Schwerin Gallery; three Church Interiors (1609, 1611, 1614), Hall of Castle (1637), Dresden Gallery; Liberation of Peter (1621, 1633), Church Interior, do. (1605), Vienna Museum; Gothic Church Interior, Copenhagen Gallery; do., Gotha Museum; St. Peter in Prison, Church Interior, and others, Hampton Court.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Kramm, v. 1568; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 35, 73; Siret (1883), ii. 294.

STEFANO DA FERRARA, born in Ferrara in 14—, died there, Jan. 17, 1500. Lombard school; real name probably Stefano Falzagalloni; pupil of Squarcione. His decorations of a chapel in S. Antonio, Padua, mentioned in 1445 by Michele Savonarola as a marvel of art, were destroyed in 1500. He also painted the Madonna del Pilastro on one of the pillars of the same church. Two pictures attributed to him in Brera, Milan: one, Madonna with Saints, is in the manner of Tura; the other, Madonna Enthroned between Saints, is rather attributable to Rondinello.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 528; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., v. 179; ed. Mil., iii. 407; Lanzi, iii. 189; Ch. Blanc, École ferraraise.

STEFANO DI GIOVANNI, first half of 15th century. Sienese school; commonly known as Sassetta. He imitated the formal arrangement, painful minuteness of outlines, and the softer curves of draperies which distinguish Ugolino and Segna. The Birth of the Virgin, in the sacristy of the Duomo at Asciano, the Madonna with Saints (1436), in the Osservanza outside Siena, and a similar one, in S. Domenico, Cortona, are by him.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 74.

STEFANO DA VERONA. See Stefano da Zevio.

STEFANO DA ZEVIO, the elder, flourished in latter part of 14th century. Veronese school; painted frescos in the choir of the Basilica of S. Zevio, Verona; Crucifixion, near the door of the sacristy there; Madonna Enthroned (fresco), over an altar in the church at Illasi.—Bernasconi, 220.

STEFANO DA ZEVIO, the younger, born at Zevio, near Verona, in 1393, died in 1450. Veronese school; called also Stefano da Verona. He was the contemporary and perhaps pupil of Vittor Pisano, but he was far from equalling him in grace, drawing, and expression. He is praised by Vasari, but the examples he has left show that he followed in the beaten track of the miniaturists, and cared more for minute finish than for drawing and modelling. Works: Fresco, Madonna and Saints, Casa Sona, Verona; Prophets, etc., over small door, S. Eufemia, Verona; Adoration of the Magi (1435), Brera, Milan.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 458; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., vi. 86; Lanzi, ii. 88; Bernasconi, 226.