Properzia de rossi biography definition
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Properzia de' Rossi
Italian sculptor (c.
Properzia de rossi biography definition
1490–1530)
Properzia de' Rossi | |
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Louis Ducis, Properzia de Rossi finishing her last bas-relief (1822, Musée de l'Évêché de Limoges) | |
| Born | c.
1490 Bologna |
| Died | 1530 Bologna |
| Resting place | Della Morte Hospital |
| Nationality | Italian |
Properzia de' Rossi (c.
1490 – 1530) was a female Italian Renaissance sculptor and one of only four women to receive a biography in Vasari's Lives of the Artists.[1]
Biography
Properzia de' Rossi was born in Bologna; she was the daughter of Giovanni Martino Rossi da Modena, a notary.[2] Unusually for early modern female artists, she was not the daughter of an artist.
She appears to have studied painting, music, dance, poetry, and classical literature.[3] She is also said to have studied with a sculptor at the University of Bologna.[4] Vasari stated she was expert in "household matters" as well as many sciences and played and sang "better