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smiths, glaziers, and saddlers (whose occupation was then closely connected with painting). The arms of the guild were fashioned after those of the painters' guild at Prague; like them also, the Cracow painters had St. Luke for their patron, and the tasks set for admission to mastership—"masterpieces"—were similar in both towns. This explains, for instance, the fact that Cologne influences are traceable in such works as the picture of the Annunciation, in
46. BRASS MONUMENT OF PETER SALOMON, A CRACOW PATRICIAN, IN ST. MARY'S CHURCH. the Czartoryski Museum, or the tripartite family altar of Princess Sophia, sister of King Sigismund I., the latter (now at Warsaw) being a work of an artist known only by the initials M.S.T., of 1456. The Cologne school had just reached the height of its development, and all medieval ideals were embodied in its work. Cracow painters mostly lodged near the Castle and in Broad Street. A measure of their artistic perfection is supplied