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After a great fire in 1525, Gorlitz was reconstructed uniformly in the influential "Gorlitz style" of the early Renaissance. On the Lower Market, you will admire the town hall with its ornate staircase, crowned by Justitia. At the former Council Pharmacy, there are two noteworthy sun-dials. You should also see the Schonhof, the home of the Silesian Museum, and the Biblical House with reliefs from the Old and New Testaments. In Pirna, many houses have lovely portals with seating niches and relief pictures, and oriels, of which the Angel and Devil Oriels are the best known. The beautiful altar in St Mary's Church is from the late Renaissance. When Dresden became the Electoral residence of Saxony, the medieval castle was rebuilt in the Renaissance style. In the inner courtyard the original sgraffiti painting has been restored. The famous "Dance of Death", with the character of Death seizing people without distinction of class or privilege, is now in the Church of the Three Kings. The museum Jagerhof, also in the New Town district, is the only surviving building from pre-baroque Altendresden. There are also many Renaissance buildings in Meissen. On the "Brauhaus", the relief of Samson's fight with the lion is especially worth seeing. At Hartenfels Castle in Torgau, the most significant castle building of the early German Renaissance, the unique spiral staircase overshadows even the "Beautiful Oriel" with its botanic elements and battle reliefs. Alongside the town hall, many patricians' houses also date back to the Renaissance. Hieronymus Lotter, eight times mayor of Leipzig, shaped the Renaissance in the city, with his famous Old City Hall and the defense constructions, of which the Moritz Bastion has survived. Some other buildings also date back to this time. For something more originally Italian you can go on a gondola trip in the Plagwitz district. But that is another story.