Ostrowski, Jan K.: Cracow (Cracow [u.a.], 1992)

ioi. Piotr Michaiowski, Krakusi (soldiers in Cracow folk costume)

dwarf all other late-nineteenth century pieces, though they include
paintings by such fine artists as Henryk Rodakowski, Artur
Grottger, Jozef Chelmonski, Maksymilian and Aleksander Gie-
rymskis, Jacek Malczewski, Julian Falat and Wladyslaw Podko-
winski (with his once very controversial Fury). The gallery does
not cover the period of Young Poland - art from this epoch is
displayed in the so-called New Building of the National Museum.

Just to the southwest of the Cloth Hall, rises the solitary town
hall tower. An imposing seat of authority was an indispensable
feature of every medieval town, the opulence of the building and
the loftiness of the tower reflecting the splendour of the city. The
first Cracow town hall, probably of timber, must have existed as
early as the thirteenth century, although it is first mentioned only
in 1316. Towards the end of the fourteenth century, the more and
more prosperous city began the construction of a new town hall to

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