Art in Lithuania: Exhibitions & Artists

[Roy]

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Bosch-like

[Aunt Hilda]

Dobujinsky - Мстислав Добужинский (Mstislavas Dobužinskis)
was a Russian-Lithuanian artist noted for his cityscapes conveying the explosive growth and decay of the early twentieth-century city.

Self-Portrait - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky

[Aunt Hilda]

ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL MUSEUM

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Stone and Bronze Ages
(Tenth to Mid-First Century BC)

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Kernavė cemetery
(13th - 14th c.)

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[Aunt Hilda]

The artist Lasar Segall (July 21, 1891 – August 2, 1957) was a Brazilian Jewish painter, engraver and sculptor born in Lithuania.

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[Greek God]

All this art is Greek!

[Aunt Hilda]

All this art is Greek!

what do you mean?

[Greek God]

what do you mean?

this is nothing uncommon. Many Europeans copy art of ancient Hellenic and modern greeks.

[Aunt Hilda]

''The New Arsenal''

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[Aunt Hilda]

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''Lithuania and the French-Russian War of 1812''

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The Peace of Tilsit

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Meeting of the French emperor Napoleon I and the Russian emperor Alexander I on a raft on the Nemunas on 25 June 1807
Artist J. F. Swebach, engraver L. F. Couche
Steel engraving. 1825

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The Grand Army of Napoleon I Crosses the Nemunas River – The Beginning of the War of 1812

Seal of the marshal of the French army and the head of the General Staff Louis Alexandre Berthier. Early 19th c.

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The Period of French Rule in Vilnius

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Aušros Vartų street
Emperor Napoleon I with a large retinue marched into Vilnius through Aušros Vartai (the Gate of Dawn) on 28 June 1812. Aušros Vartų street was the site of the battles of the Russian and the retreating French armies in early December 1812. A Lithuanian infantry unit and riflemen’s battalion also took part in these battles.
Lithographer L. Bichebois. Artist K. Ripinski, after M. Zaleski’s painting. J. Lemercier’s printing house, Paris
From Album de Wilna published by Jan Kazimierz Wilczyński
Chromolithograph. 1845–46

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The Commission of the Provisional Government of Lithuania

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Treasury seal. 1812

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Lithuanian Units in the Grand Army of France

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Hat badge of a soldier of the 17th Lithuanian uhlan regiment. 1812

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The Retreat of the Grand Army of Napoleon I from Russia

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Napoleon’s army at the Town Hall of Vilnius in the winter of 1812
Lithographers V. Adam and L. Bichebois after J. Damel
From Album de Wilna published by Jan Kazimierz Wilczyński
Lithograph. 1846

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[Baluarte]

When Alexander and Napoleon were friends.. heh, good find. A very important moment of European history.

Btw, did you know that the peace of Tilsitt (clearly favouring the French) was signed shortly after La Grande Armée completely annihilated the Prussian Army in Iena?