List of monuments in Vilnius
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This is a list of public art in Vilnius, Lithuania. * 1916, 1989:
Three Crosses Three Crosses ( lt, Trys kryžiai, pl, Góra Trzykrzyska) is a prominent monument in Vilnius, Lithuania, on the Hill of Three Crosses, originally known as the Bald Hill ( lt, Plikasis kalnas), in Kalnai Park. According to a legend, which find ...
( lt, Trys kryžiai) was designed by a
Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
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Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...
n architect and sculptor
Antoni Wiwulski Antoni Wiwulski ( lt, Antanas Vivulskis; 20 February 1877 – 10 January 1919) was a Polish- Lithuanian architect and sculptor. Biography He was born 20 February 1877 in Totma, in Russia, where his father Antoni, veteran of the January Uprisin ...
in 1916. It was constructed in
Kalnai Park Kalnai Park ( lt, Kalnų parkas, literally: ''Park of Hills'') is a park between the left bank of the Neris River and right bank of the Vilnia River in Vilnius, Lithuania. It lies within the Vilnius Old Town elderate near Gediminas Hill and ...
on the Hill of Three Crosses, in the place where the three wooden crosses used to stand at least since 1636. It was torn down in 1950 by order of the Soviet Union authorities. A new monument built by
Stanislovas Kuzma Stanislovas Kuzma (May 7, 1947 - August 14, 2012) was a Lithuanian people, Lithuanian sculptor. His works include decorative sculptures, monuments, small sculptures, sculptural portraits, tombstones, memorials, and medals. Among them are works on s ...
after the design of
Henrikas Šilgalis Henrikas is a Lithuanian masculine given name. It is the Lithuanian cognate of the German language name Heinrich and the English language name Henry. People with the name Henrikas include: *Henrikas Ciparis (b. 1941), Lithuanian painter *Henrikas ...
was erected in its place in 1989. * 1922: Bust of
Stanisław Moniuszko Stanisław Moniuszko (; May 5, 1819 – June 4, 1872) was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. He wrote many popular art songs and operas, and his music is filled with patriotic folk themes of the peoples of the former Polish–Lithuania ...
in a park near the Church of St. Catherine (:lt:Vilniaus Šv. Kotrynos bažnyčia) on the Vilnius Street, architect Bolesław Bałzukiewicz. It rests on a pedestal left from the bust to Alexander Pushkin. *1924: , destroyed by a flood of Neris in 1938 * 1984: Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Vilnius * 1991: Memorial to victims of Population transfer in the Soviet Union, mass deportations, Naujoji Vilnia neighborhood by the train station which witnessed thousands of victims of Political repression in the Soviet Union, Soviet political repressions in Lithuania deported during 1940-1941. It was the last station in the Lithuanian territory on their way to Siberia and Kazakhstan. * 2005: a memorial plaque of sand-pink marble with a bas-relief of the thinker and medieval scholar Lev Karsavin on the facade of the house at Didžioji Street by sculptor . * 2007: a monument to ''"the Vilnius citizen doctor Zemach Shabad, prototype of the Doctor Aybolit"'', with inscriptions in English, Yiddish, Lithuanian and Russian, at the crossroads of lt, Mėsinių g. and lt, Dysnos g., sculptor :lt:Romualdas Kvintas. *2009: is a monument in Vingis Park that symbolizes the unity of all Lithuanians in the world *A sculpture bench with a guitar in Vilnius in remembrance of singer-songwriter Vytautas Kernagis. *"Mūzų šventė" ("Festivity of Muses", also known as "Three Muses"; copper, gilding) portraying Drama (Calliope), Comedy (Thalia (Muse), Thalia) and Tragedy (Melpomene) at the façade of the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, sculptor
Stanislovas Kuzma Stanislovas Kuzma (May 7, 1947 - August 14, 2012) was a Lithuanian people, Lithuanian sculptor. His works include decorative sculptures, monuments, small sculptures, sculptural portraits, tombstones, memorials, and medals. Among them are works on s ...
Monika Grinevičiūtė
"Three Muses of Lithuanian National Drama Theater in Vilnius"
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