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ART FROM THE RENASCENCE endless flight of apartments, sometime brilliant, now decayed through having long been used as barrack-rooms. The most splendid of these is the meeting-hall of the Diet of the Realm, with its ceiling adorned by carved heads.

The old inventories, containing descriptions of the royal apartments, which were full of most precious objects of art, bear eloquent witness to the grandeur of past times. King Sigismund III, of the Swedish Vasa dynasty, to whom the Jagellonian