Icon painting in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the sixteenth - eighteenth centuries

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Baltarusių dailė; Ikonų dailė; Ikonų tapyba; Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė (LDK; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; GDL); Lietuvos dailės istorija; Sakralinis menas; Stačiatikiai; Stačiatikių dailė; Unitai; Art history of Lithuania; Belarusian painting; Icon painting; Orthodox painting; Orthodoxies; Sacred art; Uniates.

ENThe icons described in this article were painted in the circle of the Eastern Church. Although they belong to Belarus'ian culture, the entire Eastern Church, both Orthodox and Uniate, is entitled to be considered their successor. On the other hand, all the nations that inhabited the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (hereafter, the GDL), primarily Lithuanians and Poles, have a right to feel it their heir. I hope that this might explain why the subject of Belarus'ian Orthodox icons is presented by a Catholic priest from Poland. This inquiry focuses on icon painting in the territory of the GDL from the 16th century until the partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The boundary of the GDL after the Lublin Union in 1569 was more or less the same as the contemporary state borders of Lithuania and Belarus; the enlarged South and West Podlasie and the district of Smolensk, which belonged to the GDL before 1514 and from 1619 till 1667. [Extract, p. 79]

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