Aušros vartų Dievo Motinos paveikslas XVIII-XIX amžių grafikoje

ENThe article deals with so urgant theme in Vilnius artistic life — the reproduction history of the most famous religious painting in hundred-year-old period - since the oldest print of 1754 which reached nowadays till the sudden change of multiplying technology in the mid. of the 19th c., when the epoch of amateurish production in small numbers finished. The first images of the Gate of Aušra (Dawn) the Blest Virgin Mary Mother of Mercy, which appeared in 2nd part of the 18th c. were published hardly about 100-200 copies. The author thinks that the oldest of those engravings belongs to M. Čaplinskis and was published in the publication Trophaeum sexennalia litteraria in arena certamine of Carmelites. Very rear is engraving from publication Korona całego roku... in 1762 which was created according I. Verheist and J. E. Beling engravings the last was copied by P. Balcevičius from Vilnius in the 18th c. and repeated in the 19th c. by the other authors. The engraving by I. Karenga which appeared in 1796 is the most developed image in composition of the miraculous painting with the below dislocated panorama of the flaming Vilnius. This engraving was published in several variants — one of its authors was carmelite S. Pčickis, who studied graphic art in Vilnius University. From the authors of the 19th c. who created the engravings of the Gate of Aušra (Dawn) was noticed German graphic artist F. Lehmann, who worked at the Graphic Art Department in Vilnius University, A. Perlis — a representative of the third engravers’ generation, also lithographer of Vilnius J. Ozemblovskis (published the first architectural scene of the same Gate of Aušra (Dawn). All those graphic artists opened the new epoch of the Gate of Aušra (Dawn) painting iconography. In this epoch the artistic values helped to appear in the nick of time to “Vilnius Album’s” engravings by J. Vilčinskis, which were published in Paris — the most individual artistic creative works, which.