EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHED PORTRAITS OF THE NOBILITY OF THE GRAND DUCHY OF LITHUANIA WAS OPENED AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
On 9 June an exhibition of photographs depicting the portraits of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from Belarusian archives and museums was opened at Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The exhibition shows the portraits of the most famous families of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Radvila, Sapiega, Chodkevičius, Zaviša, Kiška, Veselovskis, and others. Authors of the exhibition are researcher of art history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Dr. Marija Matušakaitė and photographer Klaudijus Driskius.
The exhibition aims to present one of the aspects that connected the spaces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania – the heritage of the famous families if the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. People of different origin, followers of various religions and speaking different languages, who owned the land from Žemaitija to Dnepr and Podillya were, as historians call them, the political nation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
At the moment the exhibition covers only portraits from Belarusian collections, however it is planned to include Olesko collections from Ukraine in the nearest time. In the future the project should embrace collections from Austrian, Polish, Russian, German and Lithuanian museums and archives.
The exhibition of portraits of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is a part of project “Actualization of the Heritage of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania” financed from Development Cooperation and Democracy Promotion Program. The project is implemented by public institution “Academy of Historical Memory”.
Professor of History Alfredas Bumblauskas and the authors of the exhibition took part in the opening.
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