Properzia de Rossi was a successful female Italian Renaissance sculptor. This daughter of a notary studied under the Bolognese artist and master engraver Marcantonio Raimondi, who is best known today for his engravings of the paintings by Raphael. Properzia was most renown for her complex but tiny sculptures made out of stone-fruit pits, such as from apricots, peaches and cherries. The subject of these small "friezes" was often religious, with one of the most famous being a Crucifixion in a peach pit. Rossi was one of about 30 woman artists, who were mostly painters, in Renaissance Italy. Female sculptor were rare. She was included in the Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, collecting biographies of those he viewed as the most prominent artists of the recent centuries. I chose write about de Rossi because she was one of the great artists of her time, even though her craft was completely dominated by men. She is the perfect example of determination.
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