On February 3rd, the Lithuanian Science Prize Commission announced the recipients of the 2025 Lithuanian Science Prizes at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. In the field of the humanities, the Lithuanian Science Prize was awarded to the VDA professor Dr. Giedrė Mickūnaitė for her cycle of research works called “The Greek Manner in the Eastern Regions of Catholic Europe, Late 14th – Early 18th Century.”
The cycle of scholarly works by professor Dr. Giedrė Mickūnaitė offers a systematic and conceptual analysis of the origins, dissemination, reception, and interpretations of Byzantine and pseudo-Byzantine art in Lithuania and Poland from the late 14th to the early 18th century. The research was prompted by discoveries of Byzantine wall painting in the Parish Church of Trakai and was further developed through the inclusion of wall-painting fragments from the castles of Medininkai, Krėva, Vilnius, and Trakai, as well as Vilnius Cathedral - materials that had previously been absent from scholarly discourse.
This cycle of works establishes a new object of heratigial art in Lithuanian research and brings renewed attention to the late medieval art of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Critically interpreted and situated within the broader European paradigm of the Greek manner, the study employs an innovative methodology that transforms fragmentary artistic heritage into a coherent cultural phenomenon, fundamentally expanding the understanding of Lithuania’s cultural history.
Corresponding article: Lietuvos mokslų akademija.
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