The catalogue of the international exhibition “Art of the Balts” is dedicated to Lithuania’s Millennial Anniversary program. The catalogue includes exhaustive articles by scientists from Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and more than 700 illustrations on the subject of Baltic art. The aim of this edition is to reveal the sources and development of Baltic culture and art, and to attempt to envisage the impulses of the heritage of ancient Baltic culture in current creative endeavours.
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The volume traces the connections not only between the different geographical and problematic contexts, but also between the researchers from Uruguay/Slovakia, Poland/Argentina, Lithuania/USA, USA/Denmark, Germany/USA, Poland and Lithuania.
Synagogues constitute a substantial part of Lithuania’s sacred built heritage. Until World War II there were about one thousand Jewish prayer houses in cities and towns of Lithuania, while today only about one hundred buildings are extant, many of them abandoned and in varied degree of preservation.