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 ART FROM THE RENASCENCE brasses is that of Sophia Boner (d. 1532), in St. Mary's Church; six years later that of her husband, Severin Boner, was added. The authors of both these monuments are unknown to us. But it is possible that the brasses were east in one of the Cracow workshops, which at that time displayed a vigorous activity. The brassfounders, who usually learned their art at Nuremberg, are still at work in the seventeenth century, although the older tradition is now represented by the artists of Danzig.

In sculpture, there is, as indicated above, a change of style, accompanied by a preference for new material. Stone is supplanted by stucco, forms become more picturesque, movements unnaturally violent. Since the year 1619, when the royal residence was transferred to Warsaw, the art of Cracow, for want of the powerful support it used to find in the court, is falling into decay. About 1612 a sculptor of Breslau, named John Pfister, came to Poland, an excellent artist, whose works in alabaster