The Crucifixion, by Edward Burne-Jones (original) (raw)

The Crucifixion

Designer: Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898)

Firm: Morris & Co.

Stained glass

1887-88

St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham

Burne-Jones's Other Windows in the Cathedral

• The Ascension
• The Nativity
• The West Window (The Last Judgment)

Remembering that he had been "carried out of myself with a sort of rapture" when he made the offer to design the first two windows, Burne-Jones said he hoped, "perhaps not unreasonably hoped, to make [the new ones] worthy of my former achievement" (qtd. in Georgiana Burne-Jones, Vol. 2: 172). The Crucifixion is to the right of the central window. In other words, it is the south-east window of the new chancel. [Commentary continues below.]

Photographs by Colin Price, 2019, text and formatting, 2012, by Jacqueline Banerjee.

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