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   The old-believers generated an amazing art phenomenon - drawn lubok. The old-believers didn't accept printed production: they rewrote religious books in handwriting and drew the lubok pictures (unlike mass-printed lubok) on paper with tempera and ink. In old-believers' lubok you can't meet market-show heroes - Gonos, Farnos, Paramoshka and Savoska - because of the clear tendency to grandeur and comeliness. Religious and spiritual-narrative subjects apparently predominated in this type of lubok.



Unknown artist of the late XVIII century - early XIX century
Death of a Righteous Person and a Sinner
Paper, ink, tempera, gold. 40,9 õ 52,4.
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