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 GOTHIC STYLE IN CRACOW ART At the foot of Castle Hill there rises the small church of St. Giles (already mentioned), with an interesting series of pictures dating from the end of the fifteenth century, and stalls of noble Renascence forms. The church was founded as early as the eleventh century, but it was completed, in brick, only in the fifteenth century.

only began in the fourteenth century. The enormous architectural activity of Casimir the Great, as attested by history, proves true the saying of posterity, that he had found a Poland built of wood, and left behind one of brick. Cracow architecture was regulated by a statute for masons, issued in 1367. Although none of the medieval buildings has preserved its original form, yet those that remain show many