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Stained Glass Panel - Gethsemane or The Agony in the Garden

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Basic Information

Accession Number:1987M112
Collection:Applied Art - Stained Glass
Date:1949 - 1960

Maker Information

Glass maker:Osmund Caine - View biography for Osmund Caine

Notes

This stained glass window depicts the story of Gethsemane from the book of Matthew in the New Testament of the Bible. It shows Christ's agony in the garden with the sleeping apostles below and the cock, who's crowing reminded St. Peter of Christ's prophecy that Peter would deny him.The subjects are physical and mental pain, and betrayal, which can be linked to the feelings of survivors of the Second World War. These are expressed graphically in the angularity of the bodies, the juxtopositioning of colour, and in motifs such as the thorny cactus.

Presented by the artist, 1987.

Further Information

Production Period:20th Century
Material(s):Glass
Place of Origin:Kingston upon Thames, England

Dimensions

Height:1038 mm
Width:735 mm
Depth:5 mm