The icon depicts Saint John the Forerunner in the iconography of "the Angel of the desert". Saint John the Forerunner depicted full-figured wearing a mantle over his ascetic penitential shirt of camel hair. He looks like an Angel with wavy hair and wings holding in his right hand a chalice with his own lifeless body and a scroll with the beginning of verse from Matthew 3:2 "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." St. John is depicted as an "earthly Angel" and a "heavenly man" according to the hymnography of the Church for his feast. His red wings symbolize his Angelic pure manner of life. Scenes of John's severed head are depicted on the lower part of the icon.
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- ID#: 1167-RSHGI-115
- Size: 12 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches (31 x 29 cm)
- Age: ca. 17th century
- Origin: Central Russia
- Materials: Egg tempera on parcel gilt and gessoed wooden panel
- Price: SOLD!
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