...adorned with infinite speculations, which sculpture does not employ. [46] Of painting and poetry. In feigning words, poetry surpasses painting; and in feigning facts, painting surpasses poetry; and that proportion which holds between facts and words is the same as that between painting and poetry, because facts are the object of the eye and words the object of the ear, and thus the senses bear the same proportion among themselves as their objects bear among themselves; and for this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry. But because its practitioners did not know how to state its case, it long remained without advocates, for it does not speak, but demonstrates itself and is fulfilled in facts; whereas poetry ends in words, with which, being spirited, it praises itself. * This chapter on painting and poetry was found after the whole book had been written; therefore it seems to me it would sit well if it followed the chapter 'Which science is mechanical and which is not mechanical' at fol. 29, side 1, rather than after the chapter 'The poet's argument against the painter' at fol. 14, side 2, or else after the following one.