One of the great things about travelling is discovering something you didn't know existed but now love intensely. This happened to us in Krakow. We had heard that the Franciscan church was very lovely, with art nouveau paintings. We walked in, and it was indeed very beautiful.
But it wasn't until we had been in there for a few minutes and our eyes adjusted to the lights, that we realized how extraordinary the paintings are.
The walls in the nave, for example, are covered with pictures of flowers.
Flowers of all types and variety.
The interior of the church (paintings and stained glass windows) was executed by Stanislaw Wyspianski (1869-1907), a Polish painter, playwright, poet, furniture and interior designer, etc. We fell in love with Wyspanski and tried to track down as much as his work as it was possible to see in Krakow.
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