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Article: Artists' 'Image' shines.
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- The Boston Herald
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- December 4, 1998
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Albrecht Durer's 1511 print edition of his "The Life of the Virgin" came with a stern warning.
"Beware, you envious thieves of the work and invention of others," Durer advised. "Keep your thoughtless hands from these works of ours. We have received a privilege from the famous emperor of Rome, Maximilian, that no one shall dare to print these works in spurious forms, nor sell such works within the boundaries of the empire."
Durer meant business, and so did a number of his artistic contemporaries.
For centuries, copying art had none of the negative associations currently attached to plagiarism. Beginning around the year 1500, however, a new ...