SAINT STEPHEN



This is a sketch (attention should be paid to its composition) for a big painting which I was supposed to do for a chapel in Kočevje (Slovenia), but they decided not to commission the work because the price was too high for them (actually they were stingy). The man in the center (above St. Stephen) is Saint Paul, then called Saul, who prosecuted Christians and who also ordered the execution of a young deacon. Later, he experienced an epiphany. How absurd life can be sometimes, hallelujah!