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ART FROM THE RENASCENCE The importance of this school for the development of art at Cracow is equalled, if not surpassed, by the Society of Lovers of Art founded in 1854 as a new centre for spreading a taste for fine arts among the largest circles of the population. From this moment Cracow became, and has been ever since, a metropolis of Polish art, where all artists make a

point of spending some shorter or longer time, and where each of them gets a fair opportunity for free display of his individual talents. We find among them the portraitist Grabowski (d. 1886) and Alexander Kotsis (d. 1877), whose landscapes from the Carpathian Mountains, and episodes from rural life, show Nature painted in her truth, but looked at from a poetical, idealizing point of view. Like Millet, though not with equal mastery,