In the second half of the 19th century, makers of religious sculptures in Western Europe began to make and reproduce the Stations of the Cross in gypsum and other forms of relief. The production of these started in Poland at the end of the century. The sculptural works made by Józef Szpetkowski’s firm in Warsaw and Poznań spread very quickly in Lithuania. In this relief, Szpetkowski’s composition for the First Station of the Cross was used. The relief is unsigned, but the modelling of the figures and other qualities allow us to attribute it to the school of the renowned Polish sculptor Henryk Kuna (ca 1879–1945), a representative of the new traditionalism, who between 1936 and 1939 was a professor at Stephen Bathory University in Vilnius.
Text author Dalia Vasiliūnienė
Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album
HEAVEN AND BEYOND (2016). Compiler Dalia Vasiliūnienė. Text authors Dalia Vasiliūnienė, Skaidrė Urbonienė
Expositions: “Heaven and Beyond. Works of religious art from the collection of Rolandas Valiūnas and the law firm Valiunas Ellex“,
31 May–
24 September
2016, Church Heritage Museum, Vilnius (curators Dalia Vasiliūnienė, Skaidrė Urbonienė)
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