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Artemesia Gentileschi - From the Gender category:
- b.1593 d.1652...
My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do. (Artemesia Gentileschi)
Artemesia Gentileschi - From the Life category:
As long as I live I will have control over my being. (Artemesia Gentileschi)
Artemesia Gentileschi - From the Painting category:
-letter to patron Don Antonio Ruffo, November 13, 1649...
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. (Artemesia Gentileschi)
Artemesia Gentileschi - From the Repetition category:
letter to patron Don Antonio Ruffo, November 13, 1649...
They [clients] come to a woman with this kind of talent, that is, to vary the subjects in my painting; never has anyone found in my pictures any repetition of invention, not even of one hand. (Artemesia Gentileschi)
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