The Sigismund Chapel, Kraków

The Sigismund Chapel, part of Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, was designed by the Italian architect Bartolomeo Berrecci (also known as Bartolomeo Berecci or Berreczy, ca. 1480–1537). As an architect and a sculptor, Berrecci was a member of the second generation of Italian artists active at the royal court in Kraków. To carry out the work on the chapel, which was commissioned by King Sigismund as a mausoleum and constructed between 1517 and 1533, Berrecci brought in further Italian architects and artists to support him, among them Bernardino Zanobi de Gianotis (1500–1541), Giovanni Cini (1495-1565), and Filippo da Fiesole (1500–1540), who, along with others, formed the third generation of Italian artists in Kraków.

Royal Basilica and Archcathedral of SS Stanislaus and Wenceslaus, Sigismund Chapel, colour photograph, 2021, Photograph: Zygmunt Put; source: Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_St._Stanislaus_and_St._Wenceslaus,_Sigismund_chapel,_Wawel_1,_Old_Town,_Krak%C3%B3w,_Poland.jpg, Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.de.