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 |