MAGNIFICI^NT CHOIR STALI.S IN CRACOW 



The wondrous luxuriance of these choir stalls is reminiscent of the time when sacred 

 art was more a matter of love than of material profit. The superb canopy above the back 

 stalls, filled with a multiplicity of symbolic detail and suggesting the guidance of an angelic 

 choir, frames the composition with an exquisite embroidery much more rich and much more 

 cedious in accomplishment than any which could be worked in fabric. This canopy consists 

 of cathedral towers, each tower surmounted by a heavenly chorister or an accompanist. 

 Between the cathedral detail and surmounting "the pillars of the stalls are figures of the 

 church's historic nobility. 



