The Radvilos Palace, Vilnius

Radvilas Palace is a Late Renaissance palace located in the Old Town of Vilnius. It is a historical monument that represents the unique blend of Renaissance and Manneristic architecture. The current building was constructed by the order of Janusz Radziwiłł in the mid-17th century, after a wooden mansion of Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł had previously stood in the same site in the 16th century.

Unfortunately, the palace fell into ruins after the Muscovite invasion of 1655–60 and remained mostly neglected for centuries. During World War I, the building was further devastated, and only the northern wing of the palace survived. Eventually, in the 1980s, it was restored, and today, a division of the Lithuanian Art Museum is located there.

Currently, the palace is under a restoration process, during which lost parts of the building will be rebuilt, and restored buildings will be used as new exhibition halls. The project is expected to be completed in around 2023, coinciding with the 700 years jubilee of the first mention of Vilnius in 1323.

The palace is an example of a Renaissance architecture that has features of the Netherlands Renaissance as well as Manneristic decorations native to the Lithuanian Renaissance architecture. Its original layout and symmetry of structural elements were distinctive to the palaces of the Late French Renaissance, resembling that of Château de Fontainebleau and Luxembourg Palace in Paris.

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 a significant cultural attraction in Vilnius, and visitors can enjoy its unique blend of Renaissance and Manneristic architecture and explore the impressive collection of Old Master paintings.