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| | RENAISSANCE by Michael J. Mikoś |
 | | His colleague and friend, Bernard Wapowski, a historian and cartographer, drafted the maps of the Polish and Ruthenian lands which appeared in the 1507 and 1508 editions of Ptolemy's Geography. |
 | | Marcin Kromer, the author of De origine et rebus gestis Polonorum libri III (1555) and Polonia (written about 1558) described the historical development of Poland as well as its geography, nationalities, customs, and institutions. |
 | | The art of portrait painting, practiced in Poland by such masters as Hans Süss, Hans Dürer, and Lucas Cranach, was cultivated by local painters, of whom Marcin Krober from Wrocław, a court painter of Stefan Batory and the author of his picture, was the most prominent. |
| www.staropolska.gimnazjum.com.pl /ang/renaissance/Mikos_renaissance/Cultural_r.html (1991 words) |
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