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GOTHIC STYLE IN CRACOW ART a picture of the Mater Dolorosa; on one of the panel paintings there appears a distinctly Jagellonian type of face. In the execution of this altar, the Nuremberg master, Hans Pleydenwurf, had an active share. The contemporary influence of Flemish painting is already noticeable in some Cracow pictures, such as one representing St. Augustine, in the private collections of Countess Potocka. The religious worship of St. Stanislas having become a national institution, Cracow artists frequently choose subjects from the life of

the holy martyr for the themes of plastic works, which in that case always exhibit some peculiarly local features. About this time several shrines were erected to this saint, one of them in the cathedral; of this, the pictures of SS. Stanislas and Adalbert, evidently dating from the middle of the fifteenth century, have been preserved. Some cycles of pictures were composed under the influence of the church mysteries; they were mostly set into shrines such as those preserved in St. Giles's Church, or in the cloister of the Augustine Convent. The influence