ART FROM THE RENASCENCE
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The short stay of the great Dane Thorwaldsen, in 1820, was of some importance for Cracow. The master, who stood rapt in admiration at the sight of the magnificent works of art, which Cracow's churches revealed to him, contributed not a
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71. VAULT OF ST. HYACINTH'S CHAPEL IN THE DOMINICAN CHURCH.
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little to the awakening of some interest in the accumulated treasures of ages. His beautiful statue of Vladimir Potocki in Carrara marble, and a figure of Christ, both in the cathedral, remained as monuments of his relations to Cracow (illustration 72).
