Properzia de' rossi joseph and potiphar's wife

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          Diana scultori

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          5. Properzia de' Rossi

          Italian sculptor (c. 1490–1530)

          Properzia de' Rossi

          Louis Ducis, Properzia de Rossi finishing her last bas-relief (1822, Musée de l'Évêché de Limoges)

          Bornc.

          1490

          Bologna

          Died1530

          Bologna

          Resting placeDella Morte Hospital
          NationalityItalian

          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