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tion of secular subjects in ecclesiastical art. Nothing positive is known of the artists employed on them.
At the close of the fourteenth century many of the greatest artists of the Renaissance were rising into
Fig. 101.—The Salutation. By Andrea Pisano. From the South Gate of the Baptistery at Florence.
notice; and the new interest in art, awakened by the works of their predecessors, was spreading from end to end of Europe.
