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   However there is another kind of primitive icon-painting. It appeared in the XVIII century as a result of the importing of the Western religious art forms as well as the secular painting - portrait, landscape and genre. Even the highly professional icon-painters sometimes felt inconvenience trying to use an unknown artistic language of the foreign culture. In both religious and secular painting they combined the icon-painting methods with those, borrowed from the Western Academic art.



Unknown artist of the second half of the XVIII century
Christ Sleeping with the Attributes of the Passion
Oil on canvas. 59 õ 72,5
SLM



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