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‘Cennino Cennini saw (rather less clearly) that artistic creativity in painting depended on the balance struck between the demands of of tradition, the claims of the visible world, and the operation of the artist’s imagination. His writing has great interest because of the difficulty he reveals in framing these somewhat abstract concepts. In fact, the language he used was heavily indebted to Horace’s “Ars Poetica” and to a somewhat cloudy Platonism.’

– ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 4:] 592

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