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sculptors Petrarch may have come across, and where, or, even worse because it spurs us to deplore (which would hold good, at least I silentio, also for Dante) the inadequate appreciation of the major Pisans, of Axnolfo or Guino; but be- cause, inversely, there comes out of it an awareness of the greatness of painting at that time. This was further amplified in De remediis where, an we have seen, from the banality of the greatest three- dimensional naturalness emerges that other and opposite banality, of the decay of antique painting and as a consequence, the observation; Unde hee etas etc.

And the adjective "in pax" turns up again, now with re- ferrence to statuary & although only a few lines above, painting was taken to be pre-em went among the liberal arts in Greece, as well as and the "mechanice" ni Roma and was even practiced by prominent intellectuals. So the eulogy appreciation involves, as peers of the highest level, Giotto e Simone.