Gediminas' Tower in Vilnius
| Author: | Eugeniusz Kazimirowski (1873–1939) |
The painter Eugeniusz Kazimirowski (1873–1939) studied at Cracow Academy of Art, and later in Munich, Paris and the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He came to live in Vilnius after 1914, and taught at the School of Fine Art and the Jewish Hilf durch Arbeit trade school. He made his name with the miracleworking image Divine Mercy, which he painted in 1934 for Fr Michał Sopoćko, based on the vision seen by the nun Maria Faustyna Kowalska. The picture was kept in the Chapel of the Gates of Dawn, and later in the Church of St Michael. After that the church had been closed by the Soviets, it was moved to a church at Novaya Ruda in Belarus. It has been kept in the specially adjusted Chapel of Divine Mercy on Dominikonų Street in Vilnius since 2004.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: VILNIUS. TOPOPHILIA I (2014). Compiler and author Laima Laučkaitė.
The painter Eugeniusz Kazimirowski (1873–1939) studied at Cracow Academy of Art, and later in Munich, Paris and the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He came to live in Vilnius after 1914, and taught at the School of Fine Art and the Jewish Hilf durch Arbeit trade school. He made his name with the miracleworking image Divine Mercy, which he painted in 1934 for Fr Michał Sopoćko, based on the vision seen by the nun Maria Faustyna Kowalska. The picture was kept in the Chapel of the Gates of Dawn, and later in the Church of St Michael. After that the church had been closed by the Soviets, it was moved to a church at Novaya Ruda in Belarus. It has been kept in the specially adjusted Chapel of Divine Mercy on Dominikonų Street in Vilnius since 2004.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: VILNIUS. TOPOPHILIA I (2014). Compiler and author Laima Laučkaitė.
