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Properzia de' Rossi
Properzia de' Rossi (c. 1490–1530), was an Italian Renaissance sculptor. She studied under the Bolognese artist and master engraver Marcantonio Raimondi, who is best known today for his engravings after paintings by Raphael.
Biography.
Properzia de' Rossi was born in Bologna to a notary named Giovanni Martino Rossi da Modena. As a woman of the Renaissance, she studied painting, music, dance, poetry, and classical literature, and studied drawing under Marcantonio Raimondi. Undecided in her youth as
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