Lietuvos Sakralinės Architektūros Tyrėja Algė Jankevičienė
Algė Jankevičienė – The Researcher of Lithuanian Sacred Architecture

Summary/Abstract: This spring the society of architecture historians of Lithuania lost one of the most famous researchers of sacred architecture – Algė Regina Jankevičienė. Her field of research involved a wide range of objects – gothic public buildings, residential and defensive architecture, wooden manor houses, belfries and churches, the iconography of architecture and building techniques. The article examines the main field of her research – sacred architecture. Significantly Jankevičienė revealed the history and attributes of the gothic architectural monuments in the Grand duchy of Lithuania. Also, the wooden sacred architecture was one more field of her research. She made typological analyses, covered the evolution of still existing sacred buildings and also ruined ones. She revealed the peculiarities of wooden churches in ethnic regions of Lithuania and estimated the influence of professional architectural styles on the wooden rural churches. A. Jankevičienė created the school of architectural research that continues her work.

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