Address
22 Vilniaus St, LT-01119, Vilnius.
Tel.: +370~5~212 14 77, +370~5~212 01 66.
E-mail: galerija@ldm.lt
Information
for visitors
Opening
times
Tuesday to Saturday 12.0018.00.
Sunday and National Holiday Eve 12.0017.00.
Admission
Charge
Admission charge Lt
6;
Pupil, student and OAP Lt 3;
Guides tours Lt 50.
Child under 7, disabled, ICOM member free.
Access
The Museum is fitted for visitors with mobility
impairments.
Exhibitions
Archive
Exhibitions:
Radvilos
Palace
The Radvilos Palace (architect
Jonas Ulrichas) was built at the end of the 17th century on the request of
Jonusas Radvila (16121655), the chief of Samogitia, the hetman of
Lithuania, and the voivode of Vilnius. We can see such palace on a medal
forged by a German medallist Sebastian Dadler (15861657) in 1653 on the
occasion of Jonusas Radvilas inauguration as the vaivode of Vilnius.
The palace was of three stores, with two stored galleries full of mannered
dιcor and the Renaissance-like shapes. In the middle of the 17th century
it was one of the most beautiful buildings in Vilnius. Unfortunately, it
was devastated by the war with Russia in 1654, wars of the 18th century
and also raging fires. At the beginning of the 19th century Dominykas
Radvila (17861813) gave the ruined palace to Vilnius Philanthropy
Society.
In 1967 restoration of the Palace started.
Radvilos
family
In 1990 the first small exhibition
was opened. One of the halls reminds the visitors of the owners of the
Palace the famous noble Radvilos family. 165 portraits of the family are
exhibited in the hall. The portraits were engraved on the request of
Mykolas Kazimieras Radvila (17021762) by a self-taught engraver Hirsz
Leybowicz (17001770). In the 16th19th centuries the eminent and
influential family gave the country chancellors, vaivodes, hetmen, bishops
and even a queen (Barbora Radvilaite, 15201551) and a cardinal (Jurgis
Radvila, 15561600). The Radvilos had so much wealth and collections of
art that they could easily compete with the Court.
Creations by Italian, Flemish, Dutch, Spanish, French, German, Austrian,
Russian painters and drawers are exhibited here. In the gallery halls one
can see admire pictures by Antonio Campi (died in 1591), Lodovico Carracci
(15551619), Bartholomaeus Spranger (15461611), Jan Fyt (16111661),
Cornelis Mahu (16131689), Cornelis van Haarlem (16521638), Meindert
Hobbema (16381709), Francisco Ximenez (15981670), Juan Rizi (16001681)
and other well-known and almost unknown masters of Western Europe.