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GOTHIC STYLE IN CRACOW ART stem of silver added to it is Cracow work of the fifteenth century. Three silver sceptres, all of the fifteenth century, are preserved in the University. A pax in St. Adalbert's Church with fine niello work, pointing to connections with the Rhenish school, also belongs to this period. Similar to it in style, but simpler, the cross in St. Mary's Church marks the transition from the fourteenth to the fifteenth century. A splendid collection of chalices is preserved in the treasuries of the churches; they are all of the fifteenth or first half of the sixteenth century and exhibit a rich variety of artistic details; generally, however, the foot is composed of six leaves adorned

with figures of saints, either sculptured or engraved, the handle either of architectonic shape with tracery windows, miniature buttresses and pinnacles, or spherical, with filigree enamel.

In 1488 Matthew Stoss, goldsmith (d. 1540), a brother of the famous carver, came to Cracow, where, as records in the archives attest, he displayed great activity. Many a work of Cracow goldsmith's art is probably to be attributed to him. They naturally all show, both in manner and detail of execution, the paramount influence of his brother's genius. The treasury of the cathedral is also rich in reliquaries; the finest of these, a work of the court goldsmith, Martin Marcinek, is a gift of Queen Elizabeth of