St Dominic
| Author: |
Unknown artist |
| Created: | 1854 |
| Material: | paper |
| Technique: | steel engraving |
| Dimensions: | 11.80 × 7.70 cm |
| Signature: | inscriptions: SWIĘTY DOMINIK. / Podług obrazu znayduiącego się w / Kościele XX. Dominikanów w Grodnie. |
Drouart printing press
Based on the picture in the Dominican Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Hrodna.
Jan Kazimierz Wilczyński, Album de Wilna, series V
The Dominican friary in Hrodna (now Belarus) was founded in 1632 by Fryderyk Sapieha (1599–1650), in gratitude to the order for its involvement in his conversion from Orthodoxy to Catholicism. The Dominican friary was one of the largest and wealthiest friaries in the Lithuanian province, with schools teaching Dominican Studies. After the 1831 uprising, the Imperial Russian government closed it down and gave its premises to a high school. The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary continued to be used for some time, but it was pulled down in 1874. In the mid-19th century, Jan Kazimierz Wilczyński set out to immortalise the picture of St Dominic which hung over one of the 11 altars in the church, although the Dominican friary had already been closed.
Text author Dalia Vasiliūnienė
Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album HEAVEN AND BEYOND (2016). Compiler Dalia Vasiliūnienė. Text authors Dalia Vasiliūnienė, Skaidrė UrbonienėExpositions: "St Dominic and St Hyacinth in Lithuania: Eight Centuries of Memory", 17 August 2021 – 29 January 2022, Church Heritage Museum, Vilnius. Curator of the exhibition Birutė Valečkaitė.
