The Radziwiłł Palace was constructed between 1635 and 1653. This Late Renaissance palace, featuring Manneristic decorations native to Lithuanian Renaissance architecture, was built by Janusz Radziwiłł according to the design of Jonas Ullrich. The building fell in ruin after the Muscovite invasion between 1655 and 1660 and remained mostly neglected for centuries.
The palace was further devastated during World War I, and only the northern wing of the palace survived. It was eventually restored in the 1980s and a division of the Lithuanian Art Museum was located there. Today, this branch of the Lithuanian National Art Museum contains Old Master paintings by Ludovico Lipparini, Giuseppe Rossi, Antonio Bellucci, Carlo Dolci, Giovanni Paolo Panini and Bartholomeus Spranger.
The palace is currently under a restoration process during which lost parts of the building will be rebuilt. Restored buildings will be used as new exhibition halls. The project is expected to be completed in 2023, commemorating the 700 years jubilee of the first mention of Vilnius in 1323.
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Written by Nicolo Ciampini
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