Saint Zeno exorcising the Daughter of Gallienus

Saint Zeno Exorcizing the Daughter of Gallienus is a predella panel from the same 1457 altarpiece as the Beheading of Saint James. The unusual subject—drawn from the legend of the fourth-century Bishop of Verona—required Lippi to depict supernatural intervention with the narrative directness expected in predella storytelling. Characteristic of the artist's mature approach, the work displays linear grace combined with a new emotional warmth, delicate color, innovative compositional devices including the tondo format, lyrical landscape backgrounds.

Lippi stages the exorcism with theatrical clarity, the demon departing as the saint commands, with expressive gestures and facial reactions conveying the drama within the tight predella format.