Wydział Sztuk Pięknych na Uniwersytecie Stefana Batorego w Wilnie (1919-1939

• Lenkų kalba / Polish
• Anglų kalba / English

ENSince the end of the 1980s, the history of art education in Wilno and its traditions in post-war Toruń and Vilnius (Wilno) have been the subject of a wide variety of studies, publications and exhibitions. Founded in the year 1570, the Jesuit College (Kolegium Jezuickie) under the rectorship of Fr. Piotr Skarga was transformed in 1579 into the Academy and University of Wilno of the Society of Jesus (Academia et Universitas Vilnensis Societatis Jesu), the second institution of higher education in the former Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania after the Kraków Academy, as a result of a foundation deed bestowed by Stefan Batory, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and ratified by Pope Gregory XL From the year 1752, Fr. Tomasz Żebrowski, Carlo Spampani, Marcin Knakfus, Mateusz Kisielewski and Tomasz Kundzicz delivered lectures on architecture at the Wilno Academy. At the same time, the painter, wood-carver and print-maker Ignacy Eggenfelder collaborated with the institution. In 1781, following the suppression of the Jesuit Order in 1773, the Academy was taken over by the Commission of National Education, and, as a secular institution of learning, was renamed the Lithuanian Higher School (Szkoła Główna Litewska). At the same time, the Kraków Academy became the Crown Higher School. A Department of Architecture (Katedra Architektury) was established within the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in 1793, under the direction of Professor Wawrzyniec Gucewicz, a renowned architect who had been educated in Paris. [From the Introduction]