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Rounded and Roundel Icons

Rounded icons are frequently fragments or inserts from the iconostasis or the Royal Doors with common subject being scenes of the Annunciation, Apostles and Evangelists. They are visually intreresting and visually break up the monotony of rectangular icons when displayed as a part of a wall-mounted collection. 

Russian Church Icon - Prophet Aaron, the Archpriest of Israelites

According to the Abrahamic tradition, ​Aaron ​was a prophet, high priest, and the brother of Moses,​ mentioned in the Old and New Testament and Quran. The Hebrew Bible relates that, unlike Moses, who grew up in the Egyptian royal court, Aaron and his elder sister Miriam remained with their kinsmen in the eastern border-land of Egypt. When Moses first confronted the Egyptian king about the Israelites, Aaron served as his brother's spokesman ("prophet") to the Pharaoh.​  Part of the Law (Torah) that Moses received from God at Sinai granted Aaron the priesthood for himself and his male descendants, and he became the first High Priest of the Israelites.​ ​Aaron died before the Israelites crossed the North Jordan river and he was buried on Mount Hor (Numbers 33:39;​ ​Deuteronomy 10:6 says he died and was buried at Moserah).​ ​Aaron is also mentioned in the New Testament of the Bible.​ In the Eastern Orthodox church, Aaron is venerated as a saint whose feast day is shared with his brother Moses and celebrated on September 4.

Aaron is depicted in his priestly vestments with hoshen jeweled breastplate containing twelve gems symbolizing 12 tribes of Israel and used by Aaron to communicate with God. He is holding a censor and a flowering rod. The inscription above his head in Old Slavonic identifies him as "Saint Aaron, the Protopriest."

 

Rare subject! 

  • ID# 61-105-085-SP6-26
  • Size 22 1/2 x 10 in (57 x 25 cm)
  • Age ca. 1890s
  • Materials Oil on gessoed wood
  • Price $3,750
  • Orthodox Cross

Russian icon - The Virgin Mary

  • ID# 46-103-016-SP7-1
  • Size 15 1/2 x 12 1/4 in (39 x 31 cm)
  • Age ca. 1900
  • Materials Oil on gessoed wood
  • Price $750
  • Orthodox Cross

Russian icon - the Archangel Gabriel from the Annunciation

Left panel from a  matching  pair of icons originally inserted into the Royal Doors of an Orthodox iconostasis and depicting the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Christian celebration of the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus, the Son of God, marking his Incarnation. Gabriel is shown blessing with one hand and holding a stem of lilies in the other.

  • ID# 47-103-079-SP7-1
  • Size 10 1/2 x 8 3/4 in (27 x 22 cm)
  • Age ca. 1850
  • Materials Oil on gessoed wood
  • Price $750
  • Orthodox Cross

Russian icon - the Evangelist

A roundel from the Royal Doors of iconostasis depicting unidentified Evangelist - Matthew, Mark, Luke or John.

  • ID# 42-071-013-SP7-1
  • Size 10 1/4 x 10 1/2 in (26 x 27 cm)
  • Age ca. 1890s
  • Materials Egg tempera on gilt, tooled and gessoed wood
  • Price $575
  • Orthodox Cross

Russian icon - St. Mark, the Evangelist

Half-lenght portrait of St. Mark the Evangelist from the Royal doors of the Iconostasis.

  • ID# 52-106-068-SP7-1
  • Size 8 3/4 in (22 cm) across
  • Age ca. 1880's
  • Materials Oil on gessoed wood
  • Price $525
  • Silver
  • Orthodox Cross

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