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A priest blesses this object in the background of a tracking shot following this object’s creator pacing, shortly before a man on horseback menacingly demands the creator demonstrate it. A shot moves from hundreds of people approaching this object, past wooden beams, and into a high angle shot of a small crew attaching ropes to this object. To get the commission for this object, a boy lies that his father told him a (*) secret about its creation before dying of the plague. A painter breaks his vow of silence to comfort Boriska, who oversaw this object’s creation, as the sounds of this object can be heard in the background until the film transitions (10[1])to color details of that real-life painter’s works. For 10 points, name this object whose laborious construction forms the final chapter of an Andrei Tarkovsky film. ■END■

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