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 ART FROM THE RENASCENCE in the shape of door lintels, stone coats-of-arms, and foundation tablets, and transferred them all to the restored building. Bergmann of Vienna, and Felix Ksiezarski of Cracow, brought to an end the work of restoration begun by Kremer. The cloisters round the quadrangle of the building are full of the romantic glamour of medieval architecture, but there is also in their forms all the freshness and clearness of the Renascence. Felix

Ksiezarski (1820-1884) is a typical Cracow architect of the nineteenth century. After studies at Munich and Metz he settled at Cracow, and did a great deal of architectural work, most of which, being in plain Romanesque or Gothic style, was, by its simplicity, adapted to the straitened financial means of the impoverished city. His magnum opus is the new University building (Collegium Novum (illustration 65), finished in 1884, which indeed deserves the highest praise on account of the prudent and practical