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Works by M.K.Ciurlionis | Lithuanian art. 15th-19th c. | Lithuanian art. 1st half of 20th c. | Lithuanian folk art

Lithuanian Art. 15th-19th c.

Madonna with a Pear Late 15th-early 16th c.		The exhibition presents a survey of the old Lithuanian art. Alongside easel painting the exhibition contains two wooden sculptures of exceptional beauty, the finest specimens of Lithuanian religious art - 'Madona from Veliuona' (second half of the 15th c.) and 'Madonna with a Pear'. Gothic sculpture may have appeared in Lithuania after the official baptism of the country in 1387, usually produced by Polish, German, Czech and Prussian masters. Later sculptures were carved by local masters. Easel painting constitutes the larger part of the exhibition. In the 17th-early 18th c. a representative portrait spread in Lithuanian-Polish State (portraits of the noble aristocrats, local gentry, clergymen painted by unknown artists). Not only local masters but artists invited from foreign countries took part in the artistic life of the country.

The Dutch school is represented by G.D.Schultz (1615-1683) who painted portraits of the Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Ch.S.Pac and his wife Clara Izabella, charming with their sensitive manner of painting, gracefulness and refinement. Later trend of the academic art came to Lithuania. A pupil of the Vienna Academy of Art, an Italian by birth J.B.Lampi (1751-1830) painted a portrait of the Duke P.Zubov, now possessed by the museum. The exhibition contains portraits by the representatives of Vilnius School of Art J.Rustemas, K.Rypinskis and V.Dmachauskas who joined the universal movement of Classicism and Romanticism.

G.D. Schultz. Chancellor of the Great Duchy of Lithuania
Ch.S. Pac, 1670

M.E.Andriolli
Portrait of J.Liubič-Zaleskytė, 1962

In 19th c. studies of art were available in art schools of Petersburg, Moscow and Western European countries.
The exhibition comprises works by pupils of the Petersburg Art Academy, representatives of the new academic art T.Goreckis, J.Chruckis, A.Žametas-Žemaitis, the romantic painter M.E.Andriolli and a representative of the Western European realism E.M.Roemer.A selection of 18th-19th c. Lithuanian glass, tin casts, furniture can be seen in the same exhibition illustrating life style of the past.