Professor Mieczysław Limanowski on Vilnius and the cultural heritage of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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Maria Kalinowska
Uniwersytet Warszawski, Polska
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4546-3450
Published 2021-03-02
https://doi.org/10.15388/PZOP.2020.18
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Keywords

Mieczysław Limanowski
architecture of Vilnius
cultural geography
semiotics of Vilnius

How to Cite

Kalinowska, M. (2021) “Professor Mieczysław Limanowski on Vilnius and the cultural heritage of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania”, Vilnius University Open Series, pp. 328–343. doi:10.15388/PZOP.2020.18.

Abstract

This text deals with the depiction of Vilnius in the work of Mieczysław Limanowski, geologist, co-founder of the Reduta Theatre Company, art and theatre critic, and professor at the Stefan Batory University. The author, drawing on the work of specialists from various fields, presents a semiotics of Vilnius in Limanowski’s writing. In his depiction of the city and the larger region, reflections on nature and culture and interwoven, and thus his work is an outstanding early example of modern cultural geography. In his vision of Lithuania and Vilnius we can identify such interdisciplinary traits as the motive of the road and the theme of transcendence, along with spirituality recorded in the cultural code of the city. In Limanowski’s writing on Vilnius his reflections on the Gates of Dawn and on the Church of Saint Nicolas are particularly noteworthy.

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