Properzia de’ Rossi, Enameled gold pendant in the form of a laurel wreath, 1520 – 1530. Pearl, gold, diamond, enamel, at the center is a cherry stone carved with minute heads. 40 x 20 mm, Palazzo Pitti, Via Uffizi

The 16th century was not a generous century towards women, who were mainly relegated to the domestic sphere. There was, however, one who deserved a biography among the 168 excellent artists told by Giorgio Vasari: “Properzia de’ Rossi from Bologna, a virtuous young woman, not only in household matters, like the others, but in infinite sciences that not only women, but all men envied her. She was not ashamed to try her hand at sculpture” – thus becoming the first sculptress of whom we have news. 

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