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245:, the protector of nearby Florence. The end wall, at the side of the stained glass window (also designed by Lippi) are two saints in painted niches and, below, bent around the corners, are the martyrdoms of Saint Stephen (left) and Saint John the Baptist (right). At the top, in the pendentives of the cross-vaults, are the four Evangelists.
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