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 GOTHIC STYLE IN CRACOW ART Polish architect and sculptor John Michalowicz, of Urzedow; finally, in the years 1832-40 it was modernized again by Pietro Nobile, at the suggestion and expense of Count Potocki, and decorated with works of Thorwaldsen, of the bronze sculptor John Danninger of Vienna, and of the Italian painter Guercino da Cento.

Adjoining to this, there is

III. The Capella doctorum, founded by the Szafraniec family about 1420.

IV. Next to this there stood, in the Middle Ages, the Chapel of the Psalterists, or of St. Paul, lodged in the lower part of the tower. This was changed by King John Casimir, in 1663-1667, probably on plans drawn up by the Court architect, John Baptist Gislenus, into the Royal Chapel of the Vasa dynasty, in baroque style, with black marble wainscotings.

V. The chapel next following is a perfect gem of Renascence style: the Sigismund Chapel, built in the years 1519-1530, in place of one originally erected by Casimir the Great in 1340. To this, we shall return in speaking of the modern period.

VI. Our Lady's Chapel of the Penitentiaries, founded by Bishop Bodzanta in 1351, rebuilt in 1522 by Bishop Konarski, whose fine tomb is placed here, and renovated again in 1752.

VII. The Chapel of St. John Baptist, re-erected by the Treasurer Andrew Koscielecki (d. 1515) on the site of an old fourteenth-century structure, pulled down at the beginning of the sixteenth century. This was renovated by Bishop Zadzik (d. 1642).

VIII. Corpus Christi, or St. Andrew's Chapel, with the oldest Renascence statue, being that of King John Albert (d. 1501); founded, in 1501, by the Queen-Dowager Elizabeth of Austria.

IX. The Chapel of the Holy Innocents, founded in 1344 by Bishop John Grot. This was twice transformed: once in 1522, and for the second time under Bishop Andrew Zaluski (d. 1758), into a rococo building.

X. The Chapel of St. Thomas a Becket of Canterbury, also dedicated to the Three Magi; dating from 1391, but completely rebuilt in 1530, in elegant Renascence style, by the Italian