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 GOTHIC STYLE IN CRACOW ART are also attested by written records of the time. Most of our miniature painters probably began their career like John Klobuk, called Kropacz, who was a student in Prague University from 1398 to 1400, and there also acquired his knowledge of art, which he then turned to account at home. The records of Kazimierz town from the years 1387-1390 contain some interesting notes on prices of pictures bought from Cracow masters. Of this period we possess a distemper painting of the Madonna

in Corpus Christi Church, which, in the features of the face, bears a resemblance to the pictures of Thomas of Modena, yet with the characteristic difference that Byzantine influence makes a more distinct appearance.

The painting of profane subjects is gaining ground towards the end of the fourteenth century. King Ladislaus Jagello had a court painter of his own, Jacob Wezyk. When this man had left the king's court on account of a disease in the eyes, the king called some Russian painters to Cracow, who executed sundry wall-paintings