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Lviv - Culture |
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Lviv
is a city of delightful neighbourhoods where history, architecture, shops,
and people reflect the cultural variety of our population. Discover Lviv
neighbourhoods on foot! If you want to know more about Lviv, its history,
architecture, legends and lore, we suggest you start with a City Guides walking
tour. The
city of L'viv, founded in the later middle Ages, flourished as an
administrative, religious, and commercial centre for several centuries. It
has preserved virtually intact its medieval urban topography, and in
particular evidence of the separate ethnic communities who lived there,
along with many fine Baroque and later buildings. L'viv University as an institution of higher learning was
founded in the 17th century but in fact its history is rooted in much
earlier times. In
the 16th-17th centuries the church brotherhoods were in the centre of
cultural life in Ukraine. Supported by commoners and clergy, the
brotherhoods assisted in spreading the ideas of humanism, in developing
science and education. The L'viv Dormition Brotherhood was the oldest one
in Ukraine. It became a significant centre of Ukrainian culture. Since
1586 there had been a Brotherhood School, a kind of secondary educational
establishment in L'viv. The school offered the following subjects: Church
Slavonic, Greek, Latin and Polish, Mathematics, Grammar, Rhetoric,
Astronomy, Philosophy. The members of L'viv Brotherhood had plans to turn
their school into a higher educational establishment. Many eminent public
and cultural figures of the second half of the 16th century – the first
part of the 17th century was studying and then started teaching there.
They are Lavrentiy Zyzaniy (Kukil'), his brother Stepan, Kyrylo
Stavrovets'kyi, Ivan Borets'kyi and others. Till the
middle of the 17th century there had been no higher educational
establishments in Ukraine. The Polish authorities were opposing to the
idea of founding Ukrainian higher schools fearing that they might become
undesirable political and cultural centres. Young Ukrainians could get
their higher education only at the University of Kraków and other
European towns. THE
ASSEMBLY HALL of Lviv State University
"Lvivska Polytechnica" main building is decorated with 11 oil
pictures created in 1880-s by Jan Matejko, a famous Polish artist who
painted small
composition sketches, which were then enlarged for the hall
by masters of the Krakow Fine Arts School under the author's supervision.
The conception of the series of pictures entitled "Triumph of
Progress" made especially for Lviv Polytechnic was to depict
allegorically
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