Portrait of Adam Mickiewicz (Painted 19th Century)
9 June 2019, 13:48:02
- Classification
- Painting
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Lietuvos nacionalinis muziejus/Scotch Mist
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Portrait painting of Adam Mickiewicz (circa 1850) displayed in the National Museum of Lithuania. Mickiewicz is regraded as Poland's National Poet and his earliest poem was published while he was studying at the University of Vilnius in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe and is considered to be one of the Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the east of Sweden and Denmark. It is bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Region (a Russian enclave) to the southwest. Lithuania has an estimated population of 2.8 million people (as of 2019), and its capital and largest city is Vilnius. Other major cities are Kaunas and Klaipėda. Lithuanians are Baltic people. For centuries, the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, the Lithuanian lands were united by Mindaugas, the King of Lithuania, and the first unified Lithuanian state, the Kingdom of Lithuania, was created on 6 July 1253. During the 14th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was the…
