Artemisia Gentileschi Quotes
I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.
Gentileschi, Artemisia. Letter to Don Antonio Ruffo. 13 Nov. 1649. Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art, by Mary D. Garrard, Princeton UP, 1989, pp. 396-97.
Each of the original American colonies was established with a different charter and had different structures. Pennsylvania was unlike the other colonies not chartered to a company or some other structure but was given completely to William Penn as his personal property. So there was never a Royal Governor appointed by the King or a Company for Pennsylvania. Technically Penn was the "True and Absolute Proprietor" where all of Pennsylvania was treated the same as a person's personal estate in England. William Penn was a very tolerant Quaker with strong democratic, and egalitarian beliefs. He established his estate with a legislature that had the power of taxation and the making of civil laws, defense and development. He was one of the great figures in the history of America. Philadelphia was the largest city in the colonies and the center of American science and culture. However, Penn's son, Thomas Penn was everything his father despised. He was aristocratic, arrogant, power seeking, vain and greedy. However, he had inherited Pennsylvania and was the proprietor. He saw the Pennsylvania Legislature and Franklin, one of its leaders, as the people who were running his private property. So Thomas Penn at this meeting took the legal position that his father did not have the authority to establish a legislature that had power; it could only advise the proprietor. See {583431} for Thomas Penn's statement that produced this reply.
The interview was taking place next to a New York City street vendor who was selling a number of Gruen’s most famous copyrighted photographs. They were being reproduced in violation of his copyright, but this quotation illustrated a benefit to the creator of intellectual property from pirated material. Gruen has become one of the most famous photographers in America and his work is recognized by millions, most of whom have viewed his work from illegal copies.
At first, there is an advantage to not recognizing copyright and allowing stealing from foreign publishers, but soon the point is reached where the practice precludes the country from developing its own writers and journalists. The same will likely be true for China and other nations where international copyright is not recognized or not enforced.
Artemisia Lomi or Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. She was producing professional work by the age of fifteen. In an era when women had few opportunities to pursue artistic training or work as professional artists, Gentileschi was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence and she had an international clientele.
