“From the creation of the world to the apocalypse” exhibition of engravings by the world’s most well-known artists within the Palace of the Lords | Tradition

The Graphics Cupboard of the Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Arts, based nearly 100 years in the past, was based mostly on two priceless collections of graphic works accrued within the 18th and Nineteenth centuries. The primary a part of the gathering consisted of the gathering of the Moszyńscy household of nobles of the Republic of Each Nations. Its fundamental shaper was Frydrich Juozapas Mošinskis (Fryderyk Józef Moszyński, 1738–1817), a member of the Seimas of the Republic of Each Nations, the grand marshal of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the final grand marshal of the Kingdom of Poland.

The second a part of the gathering of the Graphics Cupboard was transferred from the Polish Library in Paris, established in exile. Many of the works on this assortment had been collected by Maciej Wodziński (Maciej Wodziński, 1782-1848), a Polish emigrant who lived in Dresden, a participant within the Napoleonic Wars, and former chairman of the Polish Senate.

Picture by Mindaugas Kaminskas. /Exhibition of engravings “From the creation of the world to the apocalypse”

The graphic sheets of world masters exhibited in Vilnius weren’t destroyed throughout the Second World Warfare. Later, the gathering was consistently replenished, included within the funds of the library of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Arts in Krakow. Now they retailer about 100 thousand worthwhile works of previous graphics. Essentially the most lovely a part of the gathering – 226 works – is introduced within the Museum of the Palace of Lords.

Picture by Mindaugas Kaminskas. / Exhibition of engravings “From the creation of the world to the apocalypse”

Fifteenth century After the invention of the printing press within the mid-Nineteenth century, graphics grew to become a department of artwork that artists had been completely satisfied to decide on, searching for methods to convey the most recent data in regards to the world. The graphic sheets instructed the story of the world, the pictures based mostly on the plots of the Bible and Historic mythology mirrored the themes that had been admired within the Fifteenth-18th centuries. Again then, with the assistance of allegorical language, an try was made to clarify the phenomena of the world – the circulate of time, temporality, the legal guidelines of nature, the connection between man and nature. Dramatic visions of the tip of the world, the historical past of the animal and plant worlds had been additionally introduced.

These themes are additionally revealed within the worldwide exhibition of engravings “From the creation of the world to the apocalypse” held on the Museum of the Palace of the Lords. The previous graphic works are introduced right here in complete collection, as many as 27 of them will be seen within the exhibition. Such collection of works are of nice curiosity to collectors, and the worth of those works on the earth artwork market is big.

Picture by Mindaugas Kaminskas. / Exhibition of engravings “From the creation of the world to the apocalypse”

Within the exhibition you may see works by Martin Schongauer, Peter Brueghel the Elder (Peter Brueghel de Oude), Albrecht Dürer, Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, who even labored for a number of years on the Lithuanian and Polish ruler Žigimantus August’s property in Vilnius, in addition to effectively because the works of Peter Paul Rubens, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Bernardo Bellotto and different well-known previous masters.

Picture by Mindaugas Kaminskas. /Exhibition of engravings “From the creation of the world to the apocalypse”

The works of many artists introduced within the exhibition – work and graphic works – have adorned the historic artwork collections of the rulers of Lithuania and Poland, primarily Jogailaičiai and Vasi, and based mostly on the graphic works, cobblestones for palace furnaces and different works of utilized artwork had been created.

Picture by Mindaugas Kaminskas. /Exhibition of engravings “From the creation of the world to the apocalypse”

Previous XVI-XVIII centuries. graphic works are hardly ever exhibited in exhibitions attributable to their fragility and sensitivity to the atmosphere. Due to this fact, the exhibition on the Palace Museum is a rare alternative to get acquainted with a uncommon and versatile a part of the European graphic heritage.

Picture by Mindaugas Kaminskas. /Exhibition of engravings “From the creation of the world to the apocalypse”

The curators of the exhibition are Magdalena Adamska (Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Arts in Krakow), Gabija Tubelevičiūtė (Nationwide Museum Palace of the Rulers of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania). Patrons of the exhibition: President of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Arts, Academician prof. expert Dr. Janas Ostrowskis and the president of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences academician prof. expert Dr. Sea Baths.