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 GOTHIC STYLE IN CRACOW ART covered by a timber roof, and at the same time the present building, with its large market hall, about 132 yards in length and 14 in breadth, was erected by the city architect, Master Martin Lindintolde (1391- 1395). Of the Gothic middle building, with pointed arches at the narrow ends and a steep-gabled roof, and of the booths built round it in several rows, not much has remained; the only medieval features of the present building are the buttresses, and the ground-plan as a whole; the ancient shop-stalls, owing to the raising of the level of the ground, make the cellars of to-day.

After a great fire in 1555, Drapers' Hall was changed into a Renascence building by the Italian architect, already mentioned, Gian Maria Padovano, together with one Master Pancras. The hall was covered by a barrel vault, and thus deprived of light; but this loss was counterbalanced by the splendid addition of the new upper hall, to which broad stairways led up at the gable-end sides, close to the turreted annexes. The rich architectural ornamentation of the outward side produces a charming effect by the picturesque outline of the attic rising above the cornice, and moulded into niches and pilasters, with stone mascarones