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 GOTHIC STYLE IN CRACOW ART Czartoryski Museum, being a rendering of the Madonna in the royal castle hall at Prague. The same type is repeated in a Madonna picture in the private collections of Mr. Ziemiencki, and in one at the village of Trzemesnia. Still purer aspects of fourteenth-century art, with its characteristic features preserved even more intact, are supplied by the great coloured windows of some churches: St. Mary's, St. Catherine's, St. Dominic's, and Corpus Christi. True, the artists here are wanting

in originality, they often repeat their models without any deeper insight; yet the tradition has been preserved of a Cracow artist, named Wenceslaus, having painted the windows in St. Mark's Church at Florence. In the miniature paintings of this period we see various influences at work; all civilized countries contribute to enrich our collections. Thus in the antiphonaries of Tyniec Abbey, in the wall paintings of Lond (fourteenth century), as well as in the later Swietoslaw Codex (date 1449, Czartoryski Museum), the motives of the school of Prague are repeated. These relations with Prague, made evident by the works of art,