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 186 HISTORY OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE 1510 by Master Kerstken, of Kingenbergh, a citizen of Calcar. Besides the sixteen carvers whose names became famous in Calcar, there were at the same time a number of painters at work in the little town. The names of thirteen of them are still known, and amongst these Jan Joest, commonly known as Master Jan von Calcar, who died in 1519, is the most important. In 1505 the Society of Our Lady entrusted him with the work of executing the four panels of the high altar, the designs for which were made by the superior of the neighbour- ing Ursuline convent. We have records also of two glass-workers of the years 1485-1515, and eight silk- embroiderers, by whom the church vestments, flags, and other articles of church decoration, all richly em- broidered with devices in pearls and precious stones, were executed. Among these embroiderers we may mention a certain Brother Egbert, probably a Domi- nican monk. Several organs were also constructed in Calcar, but we know nothing of these beyond what is set down in the account-books kept between 1482 and 1519. In the art remains of Calcar we find the same close connection between sculpture and painting which ex- isted in the earliest times, particularly in Greece. Sculpture in stone, wood, and ivory was coloured, and we find bas-relief work introduced into paintings. The Plastic Art Sculpture comes next in order to architecture. Its business is to furnish and decorate the spaces produced by the architect. In their best period we find the two