[1]: 53 The jury consisted of Vilnius's Municipal authorities and representatives of the arts scene, with General Lucjan Żeligowski at the helm.
[1]: 56–66 The polarized atmosphere led the monument committee to arrange for a new contest, this time consisting of only concepts by artists that were invited.
[1]: 56–66 ▸ This is at total variance with what we read on Lithuanian Wikipedia, where no monument by Szukalski is mentioned, nor anything answering to the description of a nude man on an altar.
The project was later revived in the 1980s, by Lithuanian sculptor Gediminas Jokūbonis, architect of the surrounding square: Vytautas Edmundas Čekanauskas.
They depicts scenes from Mickiewicz's work Dziady (Forefather's Eve): The bas-reliefs are intended to create one composition with the monument.