Today’s stars pose for a portrait of a famous historical couple: a violinist and the lead singer of The Roop

“I didn’t know much about Sigismund Augustus and Barbara Radziwiłł—about as much as a not especially diligent secondary-school pupil usually knows. Apparently they were in love, apparently they were strong personalities, something else too, but nothing concrete that would have helped me appreciate the significance of this couple for Lithuania and Vilnius,” says renowned Lithuanian artist Miglė Kosinskaitė, making no attempt to beat around the bush. How did it happen that the Vilnius Glass Quarter commissioned her specifically to paint a contemporary portrait of Sigismund Augustus and Barbara? And how did it happen that this very portrait inspired artist Julija Janus to create the cultural startup “Slapta meilė” dedicated to this couple?