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Impression of Eternity. Christian Stories from Italian Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces in 19th century engravings

Impression of Eternity. Christian Stories from Italian Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces in 19th century engravings

  • Year of release:2016
his is the catalogue of the international exhibition "Impression of Eternity. Christian Stories from Italian Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces in 19th century engravings". It comprehensively documents all the prints presented in Vilnius, where this collection of prints was formed. The catalogue presents 63 engravings created in the 19th century, based on paintings of religious themes by prominent Italian artists of the 15th and 18th centuries. The subjects of the works are varied and include the Scriptural narratives of the birth of Jesus Christ and the cycle of the Passion, as well as images of saints, episodes from their lives and miracles performed. The catalogue features works by famous Italian Renaissance and Mannerist artists such as Sandro Botticelli, Titian Vecellio, Paolo Veronese, Giovanni Bellini, Andrea del Sarto, Domenico Puligo and others.

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Medieval and Renaissance Tapestry In Europe. History Woven In Threads

Medieval and Renaissance Tapestry In Europe. History Woven In Threads

  • Year of release:2014
The catalogue of the international exhibition "Medieval and Renaissance Tapestry In Europe. History Woven In Threads" provides a concise presentation in Lithuanian and English of the 34 old artistic fabrics exhibited in the exhibition from the late 15th to the 16th century. Most of the tapestries featured have never been publicly exhibited or published before. The tapestries in this collection belong to private collections in Italy, the United Kingdom, other European countries and the United States.

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Portraits of the Rulers and Magnates of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from Museums in Ukraine

Portraits of the Rulers and Magnates of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from Museums in Ukraine

  • Year of release:2012
Catalogue of the international exhibition „Portraits of the Rulers and Magnates of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from Museums in Ukraine“ presents the Lithuania-related portrait collection, stored in museums in Lviv and Lutsk. The publication includes articles about historical ties between Lithuania and Ukraine, history of portrait origins and collection formation in Ukrainian museums, their artistic value and conservation process.

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Tapestries of the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania

Tapestries of the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania

  • Year of release:2012
  • Price:7,00 €
This two-part book presents the original and comprehensive academic monograph on the historic tapestry collection of the Lithuanian and Polish rulers and its fate, written by the researcher of early artistic textiles in Lithuania, art historian, Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts lecturer, the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy and Cultural Management, professor and doctor of humanities, Ieva Jedzinskaitė-Kuizinienė.

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The Crosses stand for virtue, the Arrow for victory... The Sapiehas – statesmen, art patrons and collectors

The Crosses stand for virtue, the Arrow for victory... The Sapiehas – statesmen, art patrons and collectors

  • Year of release:2012
This catalogue of the international exhibition The Crosses stand for virtue, the Arrow for victory… The Sapiehas statesmen, art patrons and collectors recounts the story of the Sapieha family. The main emphasis is on their activities relating to politics, the law, and the military as well as their contributions to the arts and culture through patronage and collecting. The catalogue contains comprehensive thematic introductory essays and descriptions of the exhibition’s objects.

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Tapestries of the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania

Tapestries of the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania

  • Year of release:2011
  • Price:5,00 €
The first part of this two-part book is an original and comprehensive scholarly monograph on the historical collection of tapestries belonging to the rulers of Lithuania and Poland and the fate of that collection by the art historian and researcher of old Lithuanian artistic textiles and associate professor at the UNESCO Cultural Management and Cultural Policy Department of the Vilnius Art Academy, Dr. Ieva Jedzinskaitė-Kuizinienė. A catalogue of the tapestry collection at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania (as of 2011) prepared by the author is the second part of this book.

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How this happened in the Great Battle... Exposé of Grunwald

How this happened in the Great Battle... Exposé of Grunwald

  • Year of release:2010

Dedicated to the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald

The 18 articles in this catalogue  by authors from Lithuania, Poland, and Sweden expand and supplement the historical context of various aspects of the “Great Battle.” The catalogue provides a chronology of the battle; its representation in 15th-20th century art, historiography, and fiction; provides an iconography of Jogaila and Vytautas; discusses the memorial traditions of commemorating the battle and its heroes at the cathedrals of Krakow and Vilnius as well as numerous other insights into the battle and its context. The catalogue contains over 200 illustrations from the 15th-20th centuries from 34 institutions in 9 countries, and descriptions of over 300 artifacts by 37 authors. The artifacts were gathered from 11 institutions and five private collections in Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine.

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Wawel in Vilnius. From the Jagiellonians to the End of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Wawel in Vilnius. From the Jagiellonians to the End of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

  • Year of release:2009
  • Price:20,00 €
Catalogue of the international exhibition, Wawel in Vilnius: From the Jagiellonians to the End of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, organized in Vilnius by the Wawel Royal Castle, the Lithuanian Art Museum, and the National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania to commemorate the Millennial Anniversary of Lithuania. The catalogue provides a detailed description of 127 exhibition artifacts, which are of great value to Lithuania and are closely associated with the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, its rulers and their residence, and Lithuania’s nobility.

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The Union of Lublin and its Era in the Art of Jan Matejko

The Union of Lublin and its Era in the Art of Jan Matejko

  • Year of release:2009
This monograph is a catalog of the international exhibition, The Union of Lublin and its Era in the Art of Jan Matejko, marking the 440th anniversary of the Treaty of Lublin and presenting the imposing oil on canvas painting entitled Union of Lublin by the eminent romanticist Polish painter Jan Matejko (1838–1893). The exhibition discusses the history of the painting, displays a number of the preliminary sketches and important documents and maps of the era, and provides short biographies of the principal characters from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland depicted in the painting.

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