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GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN. 16...
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Ii.—Female Artists. By An Italian.
an ineffable air of divinity playing on the face , and a certain transparency Properzi of a coloring de Hossi " rarel was y born found in save Bologna in oil in 1490 painting . 's _Beaiitiful . ( 8 ) in
person , she possessed all the graces that could be added by the choicest and profoundest education which that ageso rich in genius
, and in great works , could bestow . While yet very young she acquired great fame in her artand her achievements render credible what has
famous been recorded for his of marvellousl two , sculptors y of minute antiquity productions . Mirinecide , is said , who to became have
carved a chariot , drawn by four horses , with the charioteer , so small that a fly with his wings spread covered the whole . Callicrate
sculptured ants with the minutest exactness . Properzia carved out of a peach stone the passion of Christ , with a multitude of persons
minutest besides says Vasari the fi , A " postles not and merel for and y the the for extreme executioners its subtlety delicacy , . but " of A for their wonderful the grace distribution work of the , " .
of jl chef Count d ' ce Grassi u gures vre of , , of the Bologna same . kind In , b a y double Properzia -heade , is d in eag the le possession , in silver
filagree one eleven of peach the ( the eleven coat stones of A , postles and arms on , of each each the with there Grassi an is famil carved article y ) , are of on the embedded one creed side ,
underneath ; and on the other , eleven Holy Virgins , with the name of the saint , and a motto explanatory of her special virtue . There is still preserved in the cabinet of gems in the gallery of
which Florence sevent , a cherry heads stone on be which counted is carve The d fa a choru ade of s of S . saints Petronio , in
in Properzi Bologna awho , was y had being acquired may ornamented proficiency with . in scul drawing pture g and under bas Antonio -relief ; ,
Raimondi , desired to share the work with other artists , , of the highest eminence , and to ive proof of her talent for true artfree from
the mechanical , difficulties g of minute carving . The artists , of S . Petronio demanded proof of the young sculptress' capacity , and she
produced a marble portrait of Count Guido Pepoli , taken from life , in bas-relief , on the finest marble , which is still preserved in the
residence of the Fabbricieri , in S . Petronio . Properzia's art career but was She her loved deep love ly profoundl and was permanentl rej y ected a young desp y influenced nobleman ite her beaut by , Anton y untoward her Galeazzo fame circumstances as Malvasia an artist , , .
and many other minor charms , which serve as , links between greater virtues . Courteous and modest in bearing , she excelled in singing ,
and her musical powers were such as none of her contemporaries could as his compete wife one with who . bore Perhaps a less the ancient proud nam patrician e than his disdained owncertain to own _;
bee th It may first be noted tin here il that merit Malvasia ascribed states "by Maestro others to Yitale Antonello to have of
ascribes Messina n , to Antonello by pain Yasari er merel to o y Giovanni , tlie a merit Van of Eych having , a Flemish introduced artist the . art Lanzi into
Italy in 1474 ,
Gallery Of Illustrious Italian Women. 16...
GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN . 165
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 165, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/21/
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