Day 154. One rainy afternoon hour at VU backyards

 

Commemoration board to a poet Eduardas Miežielaitis 

@ M.Sarbiejevaus Backyard

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VU Grand Backyad and 

Exhibition of Antanas Sutkus photographies

Day 149. National Museum and exhibition Petras Repšys: The Works and VU aulas

Today I've visited an exhibition Petras Repšys: The Works. at National Museum (so called New Arsenal) .

#VilniusMuseums

It was a guided tour for single visitos with a museum guide Kristina.

Petras Repšys is known for his famous paiting  The Seasons at Vilnius University at Lithuanistics Cathedral.

I do even have a book on The Seasons paiting but actually I've never read it.

Petras Repšys was born in 1940 in Šiauliai. He is a professional illustrator. However he is the most famous for his medals.

When exhibition curators suggested to call the exhibition Petras Repšys: the creations, artist himself refused and insisted that the exhibition should be called Petras Rešys: the works, so showing that each piece of art requires a lot of hard work. 

Autoportraits of Petras Repšys are quite common in his works.

The guided tour consisted of two parts.

The 2nd part was at Vilnius University (VU) and the Old Town  was guided by Vaiva, who works @ VU. 

#VU

We've visited:   The Seasons (finished in 1985), later Aula Parva (Mažoji aula), Rector Aula at VU, and later we went to Lokys and to bookstore Versmė.

Both Aulas were so new for me, i've never vistited them before.

At Aula Paula Vaiva told us about Coat of Arms of VU (created by P. Repšys).

Rector Aula is decorated with beautiful beautiful painting by Antanas Kmieliuskas. 

Later we went to Stiklių str. and stopped Lokys restaurant. Near the entrance there are two works of P. Repšys in two niches (around 1976).

The upper work depicts a bear, a women, and a child. 

The work below depicts ... (I forgot that) :)

Lokys was established in 1972.

And the last our stop was at Versmė Bookstore at Didžioji Street. P. Rešys has created its Signboard (with a Griffin)  and the bas-relief over the arched passage (with Pegasus).

What is a Griffin?

Everything was so new and intersting to me. 

Admission fee: 4 eur + 2 eur for guided tour.  (Of course with my beloved Guide Certificate  admission was for free).  :) 

:) next spot or activity: Museum of Applied Arts and the same Museum of Applied Arts.

Day 89. Vilnius University

On February 2, 2019 we had a tour @Vilnus Univerity ensemble with our teacher, tour a guide and a historian @Vilnius University Dalia Vitkauskaite.

What can I say? You can spend hours and hours @ the University.

#VU

It's like a well to me. The deeper you go the more you want to know.

1) Vilnius University is the oldest and the biggest univesity in Lithuania, established in 1579.

2) It is in the ranking of best 500 universities worldwide.

3) It is on the list of 10 oldest european universities in 10 european countries.

All the info about the university each can find @official website.

I can add nothing more to that what could be found in the net.

Vilnius University is amazing to me and it is a live history to me.  :)

You can book a guided tour and visit the interiors of the university (on workdays only, admission fee - 8 eur).

Dalia took us to Sts Johns' Church to Saint Stanislaw Kostka Chapel which is closed for the public.

To sum up, it is no wonder that the University ensemble could be found in the Brussels Mini-Europe Parkas as a building representing our small Lithuania!