From the Creation of the World to the Apocalypse

 

The international engraving exhibition "From the Creation of the World to the Apocalypse", which opened at the Nationa Museum - Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuanian, revealed to the residents of Vilnius and guests to capital the golden collection of the Scietific Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and Polish Academy of Sciences (Biblioteka Naukowa PAU i PAN w Krakowie) - namely, more than 200 graphic art and sheets. The engravings by the most famous masters form a major cycle depicting the history of humanity from the creation of the world and the development of history from two perspectives - those of Antiquity and Christianity - up to the tragic visions of the Apocalypse.
 

The publication is published in two languages ​​- Lithuanian and English.