I’m questioning a “fact.”
Aurelius Prudentius Clemens, a Spanish Christian poet wrote a text around the end of the 4th/beginning of the 5th century AD which survived – not only 1,000 to enlighten the Master Painters of the Cinqucento but – to be readily available for you and/or I to read today.
I’ve had trouble keeping paper copies of all my company accounts safe and clean for the past 6 years……!