 Universiteto gatvė. 2, Vilnius University |
 Universiteto gatvė. 2, Vilnius University |
 Universiteto gatvė. 2, Vilnius University |
 Mathias Casimirus Sarbievius Courtyard, Vilnius University |
 Pirmajai Lietuvikai Knygai - 140th Anniversary of the first Lithuanian book, 1547 |
 Bronze Doors to the Library, Vilnius University |
 Simonas Daukantas Courtyard, Vilnius University |
 Vilnius Univserity, founded in 1579, the oldest in the Baltic states |
 Lithuanian Philology Centre of Vilnius University |
 Lithuanian Philology Centre of Vilnius University |
 Departments of Baltic Philology and Lithuanian Language |
 The Seasons fresco series by Metro Repys in the Hall of the Balts, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University |
 Aisčių menė - Frescos by Lithuanian artist Petras Repys, 1976-1985 |
 The Aisčių menė frescos were painted for the 400th Anniversary of Vilnius University in 1979 |
 Over 500 individual figures are painted in around 100 different scenes |
 Jurginės - Feast of St George (April 23), rites of Spring, master with eggs and candle while hostess smokes the cow |
 Jurginės - Spring: Shepherd removes the horse from the barn over a saw, representing wolves |
 Joninės - St John's Day, man jumping over midsummer festival bonfire burning furniture with a boat in a tree |
 Summer: St. John's Day - the Battles of Children, one of the shepherd's games |
 Summer: St. John's Day - Burning Cross, symbol of Thunder, and bull being led away to the bullfights |
 Summer: St. John's Day - Fox Hunting by setting fire and smoking the fox out of the cave |
 Petras Repys The Seasons: Easter - Girls jumping on a board, Easter egg rolling, boys bringing Easter eggs to village girls |
 Petras Repys fresco series The Seasons: Autumn, Feast of St. Michael |
 Autumn: The Goat Festival, end of the grazing season, shepherds lead the goat around the birch 3 times, |
 Autumn: Rye Harvest Festival - All Souls Day, the dead with pale skin, sacrifice of a pig to the harvest god |
 Petras Repys fresco series The Seasons: Winter, grandmother of baptism sitting in a boat on the left side |
 Winter: Matchmaker riding a horse decorated with birch branches to the bride's house, the first episode of a Wedding |
 Winter Solstice - man drawing water from frozen well, woman with spinning wheel, and men ice fishing |
 Petras Repys fresco series The Seasons: Winter chores indoors and outdoors |
 Winter: The Wolf Hunt with a man riding a horse wrapped in straw to protect from wolf bites pulling a sleigh with the hunter |
 Petras Repys The Seasons: Christmas - Blukis (Yule Log) pulled by men and whipped by children and men shaking an apple tree, |
 Mardi Gras celebrating the coming of spring by destroying an effigy of Morė, goddess of winter |
 Man depicted as a beekeeper with discarded clothing while a stork points to the coming of spring |
 Spring Shouting - girls climbing a fence while an old woman descends a hill on a sled |
 Column: Shepherd throwing a key into a herd of livestock - wolf protection |
 Column: Figure men with outstretched arms in three colors |
 Column: Children Playing with Death, the blindfolded children representing ghosts |
 Child clinging to a tree with a bell in his hand |
 The blindfolded children are trying to catch the boy with the bell |
 In contract to the wall frescoes being primarily red, the ceiling of Petras Repys Seasons is dominated by blue |
 Sail Vault: Spring Sky - Aurinė, the Lithuanian Venus, Morning Star |
 Sail Vault: Summer Sky - Televelis, the smith who created the sun in Lithuanian mythology |
 Sail Vault: Summer - four musicians standing as if on the ground |
 Sail Vault: Autumn - musicians (horn players) |
 Sail Vault: Autumn work |
 Sail Vault: Winter games |
 Sail Vault: Winter Sky - Cain carrying Abel on his shoulders |
 Cylindrical Vault: feeding and decoration a horse for a wedding |
 Figures in the cylindrical vault are related to scenes of festivities below |
 Cylindrical Vault with figures associated with spring festivals |
 Cylindrical Vault: man depicted in motion passing overhead |
 In this small side room, Repys painted a fresco series of Life and Death in a monochromatic third style |
 Vaulted ceiling of the small side room with the Tree of the World |
 The Bride's maiden period as she's still a virgin and the Bride's departure from her native home |
 Introduction of a bride into a man's house showered with grain |
 Petras Repys Baptism series - Midwife Award Ceremony |
 Death of the Master - the body placed on straw to be washed, the spirit kisses his body as it departs |
 Preparing for the Deceased for the Funeral Feast |
 Preparation for the Cremation of the Deceased trampling a rooster, left, followed by the Cremation of the Deceased |
 Repys covers the arches of the room with small paintings in a fourth style |
 Two men and 3 children on a bench in a round frame |
 Four men and a bird in an octagonal frame, Petras Repys |
 Dance scene with men and women in a rectangular frame |
 Five male athletes in an octagonal frame, Petras Repys |
 Bronze relief of a woman in child in the room with Petras Repys frescos |
 Bronze relief in the form of a tomb or cenotaph, Center for Baltic Studies, Vilnius University |
 Great Courtyard, Vilnius University |
 Great Courtyard, Vilnius University |
 ALMA MATER VILNENSIS, Aula Parva the Small hall, Vilnius Unviersity |
 Sculpture on the right side of the entrance to the Aula Parva the Small hall, Vilnius Unviersity |
 ALMA MATER VILNENSIS, Aula Parva the Small hall, Vilnius Unviersity |
 Church of St. Johns, St. John the Baptist and St. John the Apostle and Evangelist, Vilnius University |
 Vilnius University has its roots as a Jesuit Academy |
 Chapel of St. Anne, Church of St Johns, Vilnius University |
 Chapel of St. Anne, Church of St Johns, Vilnius University |
 St. George, on the left, Chapel of St Anne, Vilnius University |
 Crucifix of the Chapel of St Anne, Vilnius University |
 Above the altar of the Chapel of St Anne, Vilnius University |
 Angels over the entrance to the Chapel of St Anne |
 Angel over the entrance to the Chapel of St Anne |
 Ceiling fresco, Chapel of St. Anne, Vilnius University |
 Organ of the Church of St Johns, Vilnius University |
 Andrius Sniadeckis (1768-1838), Professor at Vilnius University |
 Julijus Slovackis (1809-1849), poet, graduate of Vilnius University |
 Motiejus Valančius (1801-1875), graduate of VU, Bishop of emaitija |
 Main altar of the Church of St Johns, Vilnius University |
 Main Altar, Church of St Johns, Vilnius University |
 St. John the Baptist, left side of the altar, Vilnius Univsersity |
 St. John the Baptist, left side of the altar, Vilnius Univsersity |
 The Baptism of Christ, Church of St Johns, Vilnius University |
 Baptism of Christ, St. John the Baptist |
 St. Andrew, Right ambulatory, Vilnius University |
 12 of the 18 sculptures around the nave are of various saints named John |
 Motiejus Kazimiera Sarbievijus (1595-1640), Professor of Rhetorics and Philosophy |
 Damaged painting of the Madonna and Child |
 Image of the Divine Mercy by Eugeniusz Kazimirowski, 1934 |
 Stained glass window, left ambulatory chapel, Vilnius University |
 Painting on the ceiling of the Vestiary, Church of St Johns, Vilnius University |
 Historiĉ Litvanĉ, 1650, Vilnius University |
 Text by Joannes Antonius Presuschhoff, Vilnius University dated 1707 |
 Sculpture of an eastern Bishop, Vilnius University |
 Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1898), National poet of Lithuania, Poland and Belarus |
 People in culture and science are more responsible than others that the way is not blocked by the mind...John Paul II, 1993 |
 Relief carving over the southern door, Church of St Johns, Vilnius University |
 Kiprijonas Nezabitauskis-Zabitis (1779-1837), alumnus of VU |
 Fr. Alfonsas Lipniūnas (1905-1945), Martyr of Stutthof |
 Steponas Batoras, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, founder of Vilnius University 1579 |
 Southwest chapel, Church of St Johns, Vilnius University |
 Organ of the Church of St Johns, restored after independence |
 Organ of the Church of St Johns, restored after independence |
 Church of St Johns, Vilnius University |
 Grand Courtyard, Vilnius University |
 Tower of the central building, Vilnius University |
 View north from the tower of St. Johns Church, Vilnius University |
 View north from the tower of St. Johns Church, Vilnius University |
 St. Michael the Archangel and St. Anne's from the tower of St. Johns, Vilnius |
 Presidential Palace and tower of Vilnius University |
 Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania from Vilnius Univserity |
 Gediminas Castle Tower from St. Johns, Vilnius University |
 View to the west from the tower of St. Johns Church, Vilnius Univsersity |
 Vilnius City Hall, Town Hall Square, from St. Johns church tower |
 Orthodox Church of St Michael and St Constantine (Romanov Church), Vilnius |
 Saint Catherine's Church from the tower of St. Johns, Vilnius University |
 View northwest from the tower of St Johns, Vilnius University |
 Post-Independence business quarter of Vilnius |
 Post-Independence business quarter of Vilnius |
 View northwest from the tower of St Johns, Vilnius University |
 Vilnius TV Tower |
 The Central Building of Vilnius University, Observatory Courtyard from St. Johns |
 Neoclassical hall at the south end of the gardens of the Presidential Palace, Vilnius |
 Orthodox Cathedral of the Theotokos from the tower of St. Johns, Vilnius Univsersity |
 Piles gatvė from the tower of St. Johns Church, Vilnius University |
 The architectural ensemble of Vilnius University, built around 13 courtyards, from the tower of St. Johns |
 The Narutis Hotel from the tower of St. Johns, Vilnius University |
 Bust of Grand Duke Stephen Bathory, King of Poland, VU founder |
 Grand Courtyard, Vilnius University |
 Fresco on the west side of the Grand Courtyard, Vilnius University |
 Grand Courtyard, Vilnius University |
 Grand Courtyard, Vilnius University |
 Vilnius Univsersity Student Representation |
 Observatorijos kiemas - Obervatory Courtyard, Vilnius University |
 Obervatory Courtyard, Vilnius University |
 Obervatory Courtyard, Vilnius University |
 Detail of the Obervatory Courtyard, Vilnius University |
 Stained glass window, 400th anniversary of Vilnius University, 1579-1979 |
 Arcade around the Grand Courtyard, Vilnius University |
 George Radziwił, Grand Courtyard, Vilnius University |
 Stephen Báthory (1533-1586), Founder of Vilnius University |
 Vilnius University T-Shirts, Lithuania |
 Central Building Reflection, Vilnius University |
 Reflection of the Central Building, Library Courtyard Vilnius University |
 Central Building of Vilnius University from the Library Courtyard |
 Tower of the Central Building, Vilnius University |
 Reflection of the Central Building Tower, Vilnius University |