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 ART FROM THE RENASCENCE is an eminent proof of thorough mastery of form and extraordinary talent. There is marked naturalism in his highly expressive handling of the subject, combined, however, with a rich and fervid imagination (illustration 74).

In the Cracow School of Art, which has been raised to the rank of an Academy, sculpture is taught by another artist of high talent, and repeatedly distinguished by honours abroad:

Professor Constantine Laszczka. His portraits, busts, and masks are marked by depth of imaginative conception, keenness of observation, and variety of individual expression.

The prevalence of typical features as a source of effect, noticeable in the sculptures of Professor Laszczka, is fully developed in those of his pupil John Szczepkowski, who, not satisfied with merely a typical face, gives a harmoniously typical cast to whole figures and even groups.