 Racotă was pardoned and assigned the rank of "Logothete", before being sidelined in 1640.Matei chased out Leon's "Postelnic", Mano, but allowed him back into the country by 1648, without including him on the Divan.As noted by Theodorescu, the Benedetto episode marked an early and isolated contribution to Western-style portrait painting in Wallachia.