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An original, 1580, Blocklandt master "Portrait of a Lady" is consigned for auction at a renown art auction house.
The age, painter, and quality of the portrait had been assessed and authenticated by their historical art experts in London and New York.
Incredibly, pre-auction viewing achieves a past, faint, lifelong hope, realized.
The subject is identified as Elizabeth Bathory, but kept confidential by my private art expert and historian who assessed the work!
Knowing the significance of the art, I purchase the portrait, and decide to launch a website to display the work.
Unoriginally, I name the website, "The Elizabeth Bathory Portrait."
This website domain, "elizabethbathory.org" is registered. Images of the portrait are taken, copyrighted, and registered. I decide nothing on this site, neither access, or content, will be for sale.
"The Elizabeth Bathory Portrait" is launched in December. And, it did not take long before the ugly nature of some (and we know who they are), exploited our honest work out of greed for profit!
The first article by my good friend, concerning the specifics of the portrait is published on January 1st.
The article is a sensational hit, reproduced, with permission, in many publications around the world! By popular request, my good friend, agrees to write more articles. We also collaborate on writing Elizabeth Bathory's history.
Rekindling forgotten history is an arduous project. Even so, many more articles and images are published. Unbeknown to us at the time, our digital content was stolen, reproduced without permission, and our images, redistributed by thieves. These began to appear on Internet marketplaces image stock sites!
Despite the rampant theft, it has been a splendid journey. I have met thousands of wonderful readers, worldwide!
The beginning was full of optimism. But things also changed between 2016 and 2021, gradually, for the worse. Besides the head-scratching pandemic response between 2019 and 2020, by 2021, content theft from this website is too much to bear.
Theft from this site explodes during the pandemic, in fact. Shutting this site down is considered. Instead, we stop publishing for security reasons, except for a single low resolution image of the portrait. Meanwhile, my legal team has selectively pursued several copyright cases. Everything on the Web leaves a digital footprint!
And here we are, Saturday, November 2, 2024. Look at the state of the world ideologue zealots created in our names!
We refuse to remain silent! The Elizabeth Bathory Legacy Journal (The Journal) is launched in December 2023. Here, you will find my story concerning the original 1580 Blocklandt of Elizabeth Bathory.
More importantly, ElizabethBathory.Org, is now merely a facade for The Journal, which I hope you will visit often. Read the articles, mostly my musings, but also of others, perhaps even yours, if you choose to write and publish your own. See you there!