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 ART FROM THE RENASCENCE became known in many parts of Poland; among other attributions, the mausoleum of the beatified Stanislas Kazmierczyk (1632) in Corpus Christi Church is supposed to be Pfister's work. Stucco is represented pre-eminently by the two brothers Balthazar and Francis Fontana, who decorated St. Anne's Church (illustration 61), and St. Hyacinth's Chapel in the Dominican

Church (illustrations 70, 71). Claptrap and soulless splendour are the chief characteristics of this period; they are prominent in such monuments of the time as the sepulchres of King John Sobieski, King Michael Korybut, or Bishop Soltyk, on the Wawel. They give most eloquent proof of the decay of art. During the last span of Poland's independence in the eighteenth century Cracow is entirely devoid of artistic genius, Warsaw having become a centre of attraction through the last king's liberality and taste.