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 ART FROM THE RENASCENCE who had been called to Cracow by the Zbaraski family in 1625. An interesting feature of Cracow's private houses in all these periods are the figured signs distinguishing each mansion quite as numbers do in modern times; on the house No. 20, Central Square, such a sign is still preserved.

Of fewer specimens are to be found at Cracow than of baroque. Such as deserve mention are: Bishop Grot's

Chapel on the Wawel; in the town, the Church of the Piarist Fathers, sacred to the Tranfiguration of Christ; Count Stadnicki's palace in Castle Street, and several halls in private houses of Cracow which were decorated in rococo fashion.

The returning influence of classical form is noticeable in the house front of No. 20, Central Square; the principle of careful elaboration and symmetrical arrangement of architectonic details is consistently carried out, even to the balustrades of columns on the roofs, which form another characteristic feature of the